Holidays
Blessings
Hebrew
Jewish Values
Israel
Jewish Celebrities
100
The holiday of repentance is observed with prayer and fasting.
What is Yom Kippur?
100
This is the prayer over the challah.
What is the Hamotzi?
100
This is the name for a communal neighborhood in Israel.
What is a kibbutz?
100
This is the process of repentance we do during Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur.
What is Teshuvah?
100
This is one of the three seas in Israel.
The Med, the Dead, or the Red.
100
He is a popular comic book character with the powers of a spider.
Who is Spiderman?
200
This is the temporary structure we eat in during the harvest festival and commemorates the Israelites wandering in the desert that takes place during September/October.
What is a Sukkah?
200
This is said after the Shema.
What is the Ve'ahavta?
200
This is what the Hebrew alphabet is called.
What is the aleph-bet?
200
During this holiday we chant the Akedah, which symbolizes bending our hearts to G-D.
What is Rosh Hashonah?
Bonus points (x2): These are the characters involved in the Akedah.
Bonus points (x3): This is the English translation of "Akedah".
200
These are the three categories we use to think about our relationship to Israel.
1. Am Yisrael (People of Israel)
2. Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel)
3. Medinat Yisrael (State of Israel)
200
He is a famous Canadian rapper from Toronto.
Who is Drake?
300
This is what we wish loved ones during Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur.
What is "Shanah Tovah" or "Shanah Tovah U'Metukah" or "Gmar Chatimah Tovah"?
300
We recite this prayer on Saturday Mornings and stand on our toes three times when we say "Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh" to symbolize G-d's angels before returning back to the ground.
What is the Kedushah?
300
This means "repairing the world."
What is Tikkun Olam?
300
These are the four steps of Teshuva.
What is:
1. We acknowledge we did something wrong.
2. We regret what we did.
3. We apologize and ask for forgiveness.
4. We promise to not make the same mistake again.
300
This is national anthem for Israel. (x2 bonus if you can say the first few lines of the song).
What is the Hatikva? (Kol od balevav p'nima. Nefesh Yehudi homiya.)
300
He starred as the wizard Boy Who Lived in the movie saga, Harry Potter.
Who is Daniel Radcliffe?
400
He was the king during the time of the Maccabees, declaring that all Jewish people must convert, leading to the Maccabean revolt and the story of Chanukah.
Who is Antiochus?
400
These are the words the congregation says in response to someone doing Aliya and saying the opening of the blessing before the Torah.
What is Baruch adonai ham’vorach l’olam vaed?
400
This is the word for "blessing".
What is brucha?
400
This is the Torah Portion that the concept of b'tzelem elohim (created in G-d's Image) stems from.
What is the creation story or Bereshit?
400
These are the four countries and the two Palestinian territories that border Israel.
Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Gaza, West Bank
400
She is an American rapper known for hits such as "Woman," "Paint the Town Red," and "Kiss Me More."
Who is Doja Cat?
500
This is recited three times at the start of Yom Kippur, signaling that we are released from unfulfilled vows from the previous year.
What is Kol Nidre?
500
These are the symbols in the Torah that tell us how to chant the portion.
What is trop?
500
This is the Hebrew word for "donut".
What is sufganiyot?
500
These are the 8 levels of charity giving.
What is Maimonides (or Rambam)'s Ladder of Tzedakah?
500
This is somewhere that many people live, inhabit, work, or use. (x2 bonus if you can name some examples that we discussed in our classes.)
What is a shared space?
What is Israel? What is the Temple? What is school?
500
She is an Israeli actress who stars as Wonder Woman in the DC movies.
Who is Gal Gadot?