Jewish News Quiz: May 19, 2023

A seventh-grade math teacher in Wisconsin reportedly did what after uncovering swastikas his students drew?

Gave them failing grades for the semester

Got into a physical altercation with one of the students and screamed at the others

Called 911 and brought the police into the classroom

Told them he owned 17 guns and was "not afraid to use them"

A device that claims to be able to identify whether or not food is kosher using spectroscopy is on sale for how much per unit?

$14.70

$74

$1,100

At least $10,000

What change at the Auschwitz concentration camp has sparked controversy?

The opening of an ice cream truck outside the gates

Unauthorized souvenir salespeople who sneak into the camp

The opening of a gift shop inside the camp that sells merchandise with messages designed to combat antisemitism

A new section of the memorial's website that sells merchandise

Two men have been charged after doing what on a train in Austria?

Handing out copies of Mein Kampf, a violation of Austrian anti-Nazi laws

Assaulting Vienna's chief rabbi, sending him to the hospital

Hacking into the train's intercom and playing Hitler speeches

Setting fire to a Jewish passenger's handbag that included a Star of David

When the Forward's Mira Fox called the number on Christian billboards, what did she encounter?

A dead line

Pre-recorded sermons in a Midwestern drawl

A preacher from Arkansas with neo-Nazi sympathies

Indian call center workers who are not Christian but who are paid to read a script

The Israeli Knesset gave preliminary approval to a proposed law that would do what?

Give legal recognition to three new settlements in the West Bank

Allow IDF soldiers to more easily detain Arab Israelis at checkpoints

Ban the public display of Palestinian flags

Close the mixed-gender section of the Western Wall

Jewish food was recently introduced where?

At a new luxury restaurant in Doha, Qatar

The Sims 4

As an NFT protocol on the blockchain

As a new special section in NYT Cooking

The Forward's Arno Rosenfeld reported this week on the awkwardness some Ukrainian Jews have felt as refugees in Germany. How many of them are there estimated to be?

3,000

30,000

300,000

3 million

Jewish News Quiz: May 19, 2023

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