Q.1
There are five minor day fasts in the Jewish calendar. Which one below is not one of those?
  • The Fast of Gedaliah commemorating the assassination of Gedaliah Ben Achikam, the Governor of Israel during the days of Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylonia
  • The Fast of Tammuz remembering the fall of Jerusalem in 586BC
  • Tu B'Shevat the “New Year for Trees”
  • The Fast of Esther commemorating her own three days of fasting before approaching King Ahasuerus on behalf of the Jewish people
Q.2
When did Jerusalem Day (Yom Yerushalayim) first come into existence?
  • After Israel won the War of Independence
  • When the British ended their Mandate in Palestine
  • After the Six-Day War
  • After the First Arab Intifada
Q.3
The festival of Passover, which occurs around Easter-time, is traditionally ....
  • the equivalent of a Jewish Easter
  • to celebrate the arrival of the new Spring and to signify that winter has been successfully “passed over”
  • to remember the Exodus from Egypt in biblical times
  • to celebrate the receipt of the Ten Commandments
Q.4
The days of the season surrounding the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) and the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) are often called the ....
  • High Holy Days
  • Very Serious Holidays
  • Pilgrimage Holidays
  • Jewish Christmas
Q.5
Most Jewish minor fasts are connected with ....
  • the Sabbath, the weekly day of rest
  • the Jewish New Year
  • the Sages and their instructions for remembrance
  • the Holocaust
Q.6
The Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) holiday celebration begins with ....
  • the lighting of the ceremonial candles
  • blowing the ram’s horn in celebration
  • the blessing over bread
  • the appearance of the first evening star in the sky
Q.7
The festival of Chanukah (or Hannukah), also known as the Festival of Lights, which is typified by the special 8-branched candelabra that is successively lit light-by-light each night for the duration of the festival, and which falls around December, is ....
  • to commemorate the re-dedication of the Holy Second Temple in Jerusalem
  • all about how biblical Jews were so reliant on oil and wax for light
  • the Jewish equivalent of Christmas
  • celebrated only every second year
Q.8
The festival, or more correctly, the 'feast' of Tabernacles (“Sukkot”), referred to in the Bible as the Feast of Ingathering, which occurs after the days of Atonement (from Jewish New Year to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement) in late Autumn is associated with ....
  • celebration and the ending of the Days of Atonement
  • the Harvest and a turning point in the year as the synagogue restarts readings from the Book of the Law
  • preparing Jews for the Jewish New Year they have just entered
  • remembering those who over the generations are now deceased and no longer with their families
Q.9
Jewish holy days are very much ....
  • limited to ‘life-cycle’ events
  • not based on the earth’s revolution around the sun but on the moon’s circulation around the earth
  • about bringing family and friends together
  • celebrated almost exclusively in the synagogue
Q.10
Jews see out the ending of the Shabbat (the Sabbath) day ....
  • in a similar but somewhat less formal manner than they welcome it in
  • without much ceremony or formality, seeing as the Sabbath has just ended
  • by enjoying a celebratory main evening meal with family
  • with a party for family and friends
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