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Exploring Judaism: A Quiz on Jewish Law, Beliefs, and Philosophy

Test your knowledge of Judaism with this engaging quiz covering Jewish law, beliefs, and influential figures.

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1 Major Codes of Jewish Law and Custom ________ and commentaries

2 ________ is rooted in the Kabbalah, and Hasidic Jews accept the Kabbalah as sacred scripture.

3 In addition to the requirement that the species be considered kosher, meat and poultry (but not fish) must come from a healthy animal slaughtered in a process known as ________.

4 At its core, the Tanakh is an account of the Israelites' relationship with ________ from their earliest history until the building of the Second Temple (c.

5 The most controversial of these groups is the American ________ which actively proselytizes ethnic Jews through numerous missionary campaigns in major American cities.

6 The ________ is arguably the most well-known example of a non-kosher animal.

7 ________, a recent North American movement, was begun by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a Hassidic rabbi, in the 1960s.

8 Well-known non-Orthodox Jewish philosophers include Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Mordecai Kaplan, ________, and Emmanuel Lévinas.

9 The most well-known of these is the ________, a Christian movement which was developed as a better attempt at evangelizing Jews.

10 The Shema is the recitation of a verse from the Torah (________ 6:4): Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad—"Hear, O Israel!"

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Judaic legal fiction of Prozbul protects both the poor and wealthy from the effects of the Sabbatical Year.
  • the Jewish mother of former German Federal Minister of Justice Gerhard Jahn died at Auschwitz.
  • the 5th century Yemeni King Tub'a Abu Kariba As'ad is widely believed to have been a convert to Judaism.
  • pianist and composer Moshe Cotel chose to become a rabbi after meeting a Holocaust survivor who was so inspired by his retelling of the story of Alfred Dreyfus that she had returned to Judaism.
  • the Baal teshuva movement refers to the phenomenon that began during the mid-20th century, whereby large numbers of previously highly-assimilated Jews chose to move in the direction of practicing Judaism.
  • the Montefiore Synagogue in Ramsgate, built in 1833 for Sir Moses Montefiore using a design by David Mocatta, was the first synagogue built in England by a Jewish architect.
  • the Will & Grace episode "Marry Me a Little, Marry Me a Little More" was the first time that a prime-time sitcom showed a Jewish protagonist marrying inside the faith.
  • the Sanhedrin, which is part of the Mishnah, a major Jewish religious text, focuses on criminal law, and that commentaries on the Sanhedrin by rabbis, as recorded in the Talmud, are noteworthy as precursors to the development of common law principles.
  • the Perek Shirah, an ancient Jewish text, contains 84 songs of various elements of creation, ranging from the heavens to dogs, based upon Biblical and Talmudic verses.
  • in the 1990s, Congregation Beth Israel was the largest Jewish congregation in Greater Vancouver.
  • in Islam, Tahrif is the charge that Jewish and Christian holy books have been subject to change, alteration or forgery.
  • Jacob's Well (pictured) in Nablus is a site associated with Jacob in Jewish, Samaritan, Christian and Muslim tradition.
  • Justice Henry Barron, the first Jew appointed to the Supreme Court of Ireland, also granted Ireland's first divorce in the same year.
  • Arthur Segal was prevented from exhibiting his art in Germany because of his Jewish background.
  • Alfred Gottschalk performed the 1972 rabbinic ordination of Sally Priesand, the second woman to be formally ordained in the history of Judaism.
  • Maryam Jameelah, a New York-born convert from Judaism to Islam, became a prominent female advocate for conservative Islam.
  • Ohaveth Sholum Congregation, Seattle's first Jewish congregation, fell four days short of having the first synagogue in Washington.
  • according to Ernst Lohmeyer, "the Christian faith is only Christian as long as it retains in its heart the Jewish faith".
  • according to Jewish customs, a yahrzeit candle is lit in memory of the dead on the anniversary of the death on the Hebrew calendar.
  • Percival Goodman, described as "the most prolific architect in Jewish history" by The Forward, was also an urban planning theorist who criticized Robert Moses' ideas for parkways in New York City.
  • Abu Isa founded the first Jewish sect since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.
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