Jewish News Quiz: Dec. 30, 2022

Which of the following is NOT among the lies told by George Santos about his background?

That his grandparents fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine

That he is "more Jewish than Bernie"

That he was endorsed by Democratic former Congressman Steve Israel

That he only ever claimed to be "Jew-ish," not Jewish

Which of the following briefly appeared in Google's search results for "Jew" this week?

A definition as an offensive verb meaning “to bargain with someone in a miserly or petty way.”

The Nazi flag as one of the top images, the result of a campaign by 8chan trolls

A description as a "global cabal," the result of Wikipedia vandalism

A landing page that redirected visitors to the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer

What is true of the billboards with “ancient Jewish values and teachings” put up by the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles?

They use a Christian translation of the Bible, not a Jewish one

They attribute a quote to Deuteronomy that never appears in it

One comes from an exegesis of the New Testament

One is actually a quote from Whoopi Goldberg

Forward contributor Jane M. Friedman found what at the Paris memorial to the 13,000 Jews rounded up by the French police in 1942?

An etching of a swastika

The extremely vague inscription “In tribute to the victims of racist persecutions and crimes against humanity”

Homeless individuals using it as an encampment

Children using it as a playground

Israel's ambassador to France did what in response to Benjamin Netanyahu's new government taking office?

Held a party so raucous the police showed up

Wrote to colleagues that it is a "glorious moment for our country" in a leaked note

Resigned

Renounced her Israeli citizenship

How did the police in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, handle a neo-Nazi group who hung antisemitic posters over a highway?

Deemed the posters illegal hate speech and took them down

Threatened to arrest a woman who aggressively confronted the group

Arrested a woman who aggressively confronted the group

Shot a member of the group who approached counterprotesters, sending him to the hospital

Which Jewish politician recently announced that he has a "serious but curable form of cancer"?

Rahm Emanuel

Barney Frank

Jamie Raskin

Adam Schiff

What recently happened in Turkey related to the Orthodox drama Shtisel?

The state TV network declared it "indecent" and pulled it from the air

Police arrested and detained a screenwriter visiting family there

President Tayyip Erdoğan in an interview listed it among the shows he watches

A Muslim adaptation of the show began production

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