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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