BRIT MILA

1. Avraham’s son who was circumcised when he was thirteen years old.

2. The person who holds the baby during circumcision.

3. The prophet said to be present at every Brit Mila, who is given a special chair.

4. The mohel for Gershom, the son of Moshe Rabbenu, in Exodus Chap 4.

5. A non-Jew must be circumcised before he can eat this, acc to Exod Ch 12.

MINOR PROPHETS

1. The last of the 12 minor prophets.

2. The city Jonah was told to go to.

3. This airline takes its name from Hoshea Chapter 11.

4. He gave the message, "Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, O Children of Israel."

5. The entire book is but one chapter long.

AMERICA

1. He wrote that the United States would give "to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance" in a letter to the Jews of Newport, R.I.

2. She wrote a sonnet for the Statue of Liberty that is still inscribed there.

3. National security adviser and later secretary of state under Richard Nixon.

4. Jacob Schiff devised this idea for bringing Jews to the United States via Texas.

5. The first American Jewish astronaut.

MENORAH AURA

1. Technically a menorah has only seven branches, but this object has nine.

2. The number of candles in a standard single box of Chanukah candles.

3. Acc to Exodus Chap. 25, the menorah should be made of this material.

4. After the destruction of the 2d Temple, the menorah was taken to this city.

5. Donated by the British government, a menorah sculpture stands across from this Jerusalem landmark.

RABBI HALL OF FAME

1. Rabbi Yisrael Moshe Kagan, better known by this name, is virtually synonymous with the mitzvah of avoiding lashon hara.

2. The acknowledged leader of non-Chasidic Eastern European Jewry, Rabbi Eliyahu Kramer is best remembered today with this descriptive name.

3. Nineteenth-century leader of the Jewish community of Frankfurt-am-Main.

4. The author of Nahalot Avot as well as commentaries on Tanach and the Haggadah, he was finance minister to the king of Spain prior to the 1492 expulsion.

5. He did not hold a rabbinic post for most of his life, but Rabbi Yishayahu Karelitz was a preeminent halakhic decisor better known under this name.

MUSICIANS

1. American composer of "Appalachian Spring," and "Fanfare for the Common Man"

2. He starred in the 1981 remake of "The Jazz Singer."
3. During the Gulf War, this violinist continued a concert in Jerusalem during an air raid warning while his audience donned gas masks.

4. This Cincinnati-born conductor is Artistic Director of the Metropolitan Opera.

5. He was manager of the Beatles until 1967.

JEWISH GEOGRAPHY

1. The Rambam synagogue in this city is where Maimonides is said to have written his major works.

2. Yad Mordechai is named for M. Anieliwicz, who led an uprising here in 1943.

3. The city with the first officially mandated ghetto for Jews, dating to 1516.

4. After fleeing to Kobe, Japan, students and rabbis of the Mirrer Yeshiva eventually lived out World War 2 in this city.

5. The Mikve Israel-Emanuel synagogue in this Caribbean city is the oldest building in continuous use in the Western hemisphere.

DREAMS

1. In his dream, angels were climbing up and down a ladder.

2. He is credited with saying, "If you will it, it is no dream."

3. In Gen Ch 40, he dreamed of walking with baskets of bread on his head.

4. His book "The Interpretation of Dreams" was published in 1900.

5. Daniel not only interpreted this wicked king’s dream, but also described it

PRIME MINISTERS OF ISRAEL

1. The prime minister who signed the Wye River accords.

2. In 1981 Menachem Begin ordered the destruction of a nuclear reactor in this country.

3. When Golda Meir resigned in 1974, he succeeded her as prime minister.

4. He said, "Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist."

5. In pre-Independence Palestine, he was head of the Stern Gang, Lechi.

PROPHETESSES

1. The name of an international women’s organization and Queen Esther’s other name.

2. She took a drum in her hand, and all the women followed her with drums and dance.

3. She would sit in judgment under a palm tree, between Ramah and Beit El of Har Efrayim.

4. An innovator in silent prayer, she was the wife of Elkana and the mother of Shmuel.

5. The wife of Naval and later of King David.

FAST DAYS

1. His assassination is commemorated on the third of Tishrei.
2. Moshe Rabbeynu came down the mountain with the first tablets on this day.

3. Taanit Esther lasts less than one full day, but the queen herself suggested fasting for this length of time.

4. The only fast day that can fall on a Friday.

5. According to tradition, Tisha b’Av falls on the day of, among numerous tragedies, the Jews’ expulsion from this country in 1290.

"TOO JEWISH"

1. Robert Zimmerman

2. Erich Weiss

3. Ralph Lifshitz

4. Belle Silverman

5. Esther and Pauline Friedman

BOOKS OF THE BIBLE

1. "They shall beat their swords into plowshares."
2. "To all things there is a season."
3. "A woman of valor, who can find her?"
4. "Proclaim liberty throughout the land and unto all the inhabitants thereof."
5. "Man does not live by bread alone."

COMEDIANS

1. He made "yadayadayada" a household word.

2. He misquoted Isaiah to say, "The lion will lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won’t get much sleep."

1. Their real first names were Julius, Herbert, Leonard, Milton & Adolph, later Arthur
2. This "former" rabbi will tell you all about "The World According to Me."

5. [Visual clue.] (Three fingers folded.)

SHALOSH REGALIM

1. Shavuot falls on what would be the 50^th day of this period.

2. Of the Four Species of Sukkot, the one said to symbolize the mouth.

3. The prayer for rain is said on this day.

4. On erev Pesach, we say that any leaven remaining in our possession is to be like this.

5. This poem is read responsively before the torah reading on the first day of Shavuot.

MAGIC MOUNTAINS

1. The mountain where Avraham nearly sacrificed Yitzchak.
2. Home of one campus of Hebrew University and one branch of Hadassah Hospital.
3. When Moshe came down from Mt. Sinai, this man told him he heard the sound of war.
4. In Eicha (Lamentations), this mountain lies desolate, with foxes walking about.
5. The hospital name in Columbus closely associated with Eliyahu HaNavi.

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

1. This Romanian-born Peace Prize winner of 1986 is best known as a writer of and witness to the Holocaust.
2. For his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, he won the Physics Prize in 1921.
3. A novelist and short-story writer in Yiddish, he won the Literature Prize in 1978.

4. This Israeli writer shared the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966.

5. Of the three Israelis who have shared the Peace Prize, he was the only one who was not serving as Prime Minister at the time.

JUDGES

1. This court of law consisted of either 71 or 23 members.

2. The first Jewish justice on the U.S. Supreme Court

3. This man of many names had the idea for the first Jewish judiciary.

4. The first judge in the Book of Judges.

5. As Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, he presided over.the commission that investigated the Yom Kippur War.

PEOPLE OF THE BOOKS

1. American writer whose first great success was "Goodbye, Columbus."

2. Author of the "Maggid Speaks" series.

3. His novels include "My Name Is Asher Lev" and "The Chosen"

4. Author of "The Jewish Wars" and "Against Apion."

5. Written as a conversation between a king and a rabbi, this book is the magnum opus of R. Yehuda HaLevi.

SEDER NIGHT

1. He drank the water in Chad Gadya.

2. R Eliezer, R Yehoshua, R Elazar b Azariah, R Akiva, and R Tarfon had their seder together in this city.

3. The son who receives the answer, "With a strong hand did G-d take us out of Egypt from the House of Bondage."

4. That which is eleven in the verse, "Who knows eleven?"

5. Of the fourteen parts of the Seder (Kadesh, Urechatz…), the one in which we drink the third cup of wine.

MEGILLOT

1. According to Kohelet (Ecclesiastes), there is nothing new under here.

2. Shir HaShirim says, "Don’t look at me, for I am" like this color.

3. These two botched the assassination of King Ahashverosh

4. He is credited with writing Eicha, Lamentations.

5. The name given for the kinsman that Boaz redeemed Ruth from.

KINGS

1. King Solomon’s mother.

2. Saul was a member of this tribe.

3. Before capturing Jerusalem, David ruled for seven years in this city.

1. A prominent downtown Jerusalem street is named for this 20th-cent. British king
2. Moab rebelled after his death, as recorded at the start of the second book of Kings.

YIMACH SHMO

1. His capture in 1960 and trial in 1961 1ed to his execution in 1962.

2. Roman emperor who destroyed Jerusalem in 70 C.E.

3. American inventor and publisher of the notorious Dearborn Independent.

4. Author of "Jews in Music" and composer of "Die Meistersinger," he was Hitler’s favorite composer.

5. He led the massacre against the Jews in 1648.

SPORTS & ATHLETES

1. Before retiring at the age of 32, this Dodger pitcher threw four no-hitters.

2. He won seven gold medals in swimming at the 1972 Olympics.

3. He hit 58 home runs in 1938 and attracted attention when he didn’t play on Yom Kippur.

4.Coach of the Boston Celtics from 1950-1966.

1. Despite a severely sprained left ankle, she helped the US team win the gold medal in gymnastics at the 1996 Olympics.

MATRIARCHS & PATRIARCHS

1. Sarah told Avraham to throw out this woman, and her son.

2. She died in childbirth and is buried on the road near Efrat, Bethlehem.

3. She was Rivka’s nurse.

4. Both Avraham and Yitzchak negotiated with this king over water rights.

5. When Yaakov gave a double portion to Yosef, the sons of this woman became the namesakes for two of the tribes.

SHABBAT SHALOM

1. This term describes objects that we are not allowed to move on Shabbat.

2. The Shabbat before this holiday is called Shabbat HaGadol.

3. This passage from Proverbs (Mishlei) is traditionally recited before kiddush.

4. Shabbat Shira is so named because the Jews sang at this body of water.

5. Rabbi Shlomo HaLevi worked his name into the words of this Shabbat prayer.

TORAH VILLAINS

1. He ssssaid, "You won’t die. Because Hashem knows the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened."

2. O how good! Balak employed him to curse the Bnei Yisrael.

3. He told his son-in-law, "Around here, we don’t marry off the younger daughter before the elder."

4.He made this earth-shattering statement: "The entire assembly is all holy, and Hashem is with them—so why do you put yourselves above them?"

5. Don’t forget that this grandson of Eisav attacked the Bnei Yisrael in Refidim.

IN THE SUKKAH

1. The covering of a sukkah, made of bamboo or other types of branches.

2. A kosher sukkah has at least two and a half of these.

3. The last bracha of kiddush on the first night of Sukkot.

4. To make the bracha "leshev baSukka" without washing, you should eat a food that requires this bracha.

5. Of the guests (Ushpizin) of Sukkot, he is the guest on the last night.

MONTHS OF THE YEAR

1. In a leap year, this month occurs twice.

2. The first month of the year, according to the Torah’s numbering.

3. This special day falls on the 18^th of Iyar.

4. Chanukkah always coincides with the first day of this month.

5. The four New Years listed in the Mishna occur in Tishrei, Nissan, Shevat, and this month.

BLESSINGS

1. This bracha is recited over eggs, fish, meat, and many other foods.

2. Don’t speak between making these two pre-meal blessings.

3. You make this bracha after eating something other than bread or the seven species.

4. Of the four blessings in havdala, the second one is made over this.

5. In the gemara, this is referred to as the "three blessings" or gimel brachot

KUGELS & KNISHES

1. Nuts, wine, cinnamon, apples, and dates are typical ingredients of this holiday condiment.
2. Its name suggests that it is cooked and stuffed back into its skin, but this is rarely done nowadays.
3. Jewish wontons, often meat-stuffed and found in soups.
4. This shabbat lunch specialty derives its name from the Romance language word for "hot."
5. A traditional Rosh Hashanah dish with carrots, brown sugar, and sometimes prunes

BIBLICAL BROTHERS

1. Yaakov cursed the anger and fury of these two of his sons.

2. They brought a strange fire, which really burned them up.

3. Brothers Machlon and Kilyon married these two Moabite ladies.

4. Yehuda’s sons Er and Onan each died while wedded to this woman.

5. Though not closely related, they loved each other as brothers.

GROGERS & HAMAMTASCHENS

1. She gave Haman the idea to hang Mordechai from the gallows.

2. This song is traditionally sung after the reading of the megilla.

3. Along with Mishloach Manot, a Purim Seudah, and hearing the megillah, this is one of the main mitzvot of Purim.

4. This courtier is remembered for good because he tipped off the king to Haman’s intentions.

5. It is traditional to write the name of Haman on the bottom of this object in order to wipe out his name.

THE TEN PLAGUES

1. The Bnei Yisrael were ordered to spread this on the doorposts during the final plague.

2. He helped bring the first three plagues, because Moshe could not do so.

3. As many as 80 percent of the Bnei Yisrael died out during this plague.

4. The first plague that Pharaoh’s magicians could not duplicate with a similar effect.

5. Before the tenth plague, Moshe was told that he would die if he ever saw this again.

SHOFAR SO GOOD

1. The shofar is blown at the conclusion of this holiday.
2. The total number of shofar blasts blown on the second day of Rosh Hashanah
3. The shofar sound "Shevarim" is made up of this many distinct components.

4. "Shofrot" is the third part of this Rosh Hashanah service.

5. The blowing of shofars helped to collapse the walls of this city.

SIDDUR & MACHZOR

1. A shortened version of this is said on the last six days of Pesach and on Rosh Chodesh.

2. The closing service on Yom Kippur.

3. Hoshanot are recited on this holiday.

4. The prayer for this natural phenomenon is recited on the first day of Pesach.

5. From the Psalm for Shabbat, we read that this type of person will flourish like a date palm and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTIONS

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ISRAELI MUSIC

This Israeli standard, based on a Bohemian folksong, shares its theme with Smetana’s famous piece, "The Moldau."

THE COLUMBUS COMMUNITY KOLLEL

This Kollel rabbi has the same last name as a former vice president of the United States

HOLY DAYS

Medieval German Jews would eat cabbage soup on this day, because in Yiddish cabbage soup is called "Kohl mit vasser."

SHEMA YISRAEL

The only paragraph in the Shema that is not found inside a mezuzah comes from this book of the Torah.

BIRKAT HAMAZON

Other than the Three Patriarchs, these are the only two people from Tanach mentioned in the regular weekday benching.

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