Q.1
Rosh Chodesh, the first day of each Jewish month, is considered a minor festival. There is a custom that ...
  • Jewish women do not work on the day
  • Jewish men do not work on the day
  • children attend synagogue in the morning for a celebration breakfast
  • if it falls on the Sabbath day it is ignored
Q.2
“Sukkot” known as the Feast of Tabernacles, or the Feast of Booths is a time when the ritual is to ....
  • take four plant types, typically a citron fruit, a palm branch, a myrtle branch, and a willow branch, and to celebrate with them
  • refrain from drinking hot drinks for the week of the festival
  • joyously celebrate how far the Jewish people have come (from a timeline point of view) since slavery in Egypt in biblical times
  • dress very casually for synagogue services during the week of the festival
Q.3
Hannukah, or the “Festival of Lights” that sometimes coincides with Christmas, is an 8-day minor Jewish holiday that commemorates the ....
  • Jewish equivalent of Christmas
  • Re-dedication of the 2nd Holy Temple in Jerusalem
  • Passover
  • Feast of Tabernacles
Q.4
“Yom Hashoah” is the day each year Jews remember the Holocaust during the Second World War. It falls on the date of the ....
  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
  • liberation of Auschwitz, the largest extermination camp established by the Germans 37 miles west of Krakow (Cracow) in Poland where 1.1 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis
  • establishment of the State of Israel in 1948
  • the election of David Ben Gurion as Prime Minister of Israel in 1959
Q.5
Yom Haatzmaut or Independence Day celebrates ....
  • American Independence Day
  • Israel Independence Day
  • the end of the Second World War and the freeing of the remaining Jewish prisoners held by the Nazis
  • the reunification of Jerusalem during the Six Day War
Q.6
“Shavuot” is one of the Jewish harvest festivals and is also known as the festival of 'Weeks'. It marks the ....
  • start of the wheat harvest and the end of the barley harvest
  • start of the crop sowing season
  • moving clocks forward an hour at springtime to help harvesting
  • the harvesting of the first fruit crops of the year
Q.7
“Tu bi-Shevat” (the New Year for Trees) actually celebrates a new ....
  • year for planting crops in Israel
  • year for planting trees in Israel
  • Spring after the Equinox
  • year looking forward to increased sustainability on the land
Q.8
“Purim”, the festival of “lots” is celebrated around March and before Passover. It is very much ....
  • celebrated mainly at home
  • the only Jewish festival not to include the services of a rabbi
  • the only Jewish festival not celebrated in Israel
  • an “eat, drink and be merry” festival
Q.9
“Tisha B'Av” a single day of national mourning and fasting marking the destruction of the Temples in ancient times occurs in late July or August. It is unusual because it’s ....
  • not widely observed outside the religious community
  • not widely observed inside the religious community
  • a festival for old men
  • a festival celebrated only by women
Q.10
The main denominations or branches of Judaism - Orthodox, Progressive/Liberal/Reform and Conservative celebrate Jewish festivals ....
  • in their own way
  • completely differently
  • ignoring just some festivals completely
  • very much in the same way
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