Jewish News Quiz: Oct. 6, 2023

The Anti-Defamation League and Elon Musk may have called a truce. What prompted it?

A private hour-long phone conversation between Musk and ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt

The ADL resuming advertising on the X platform

Musk withdrawing the defamation lawsuit he filed against the ADL

The ADL removing content from its website that called Musk a facilitator of antisemitism

The leading candidate to become the next president of Mexico faced criticism that her Jewishness is inauthentic after what?

An audio recording of her meeting with a group of Catholic leaders in which she downplayed her Jewish roots was leaked

Genealogists uncovered immigration papers in which her parents both identified as Christian

She was photographed working during Shabbat

She wore a rosary with a crucifix during a campaign speech

Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who died last Friday, was Jewish, but also had what other religious tie?

Attended a Catholic high school

Interned at the Mormon church's D.C. Affairs office in college

Participated for many years in an interfaith Jewish-Quaker book club

Went on a monthlong Taoist silent meditation retreat in 1991

A student at CUNY Law School made a fiery speech criticizing Israel at last year's commencement. What will happen this year?

This year's class invited the same speaker back again, a rebuke of the administration's handling of last year's speech

Four different student speakers have been chosen to "showcase a multiplicity of our community's diverse perspectives"

No student speakers will be allowed at commencement

CUNY professor Marc Lamont Hill, who was fired from CNN for anti-Zionist remarks that were criticized as antisemitic, will give a speech

Following a scandal in which a Ukrainian who fought for the Nazis was honored in Canada's Parliament, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was looking into releasing what?

An investigative report detailing how the man was selected for recognition

A preliminary eligibility report deciding whether Canada would honor an extradition request from Poland should he be charged for crimes there

An unredacted version of a 1986 commission report on Nazi veterans in Canada

A formal letter of apology to Ukraine, which would be accompanied by a $4.7 million grant to help preserve Jewish sites in Ukraine through the war

A new report criticizes the lack of representation of Jewish poverty in Hollywood, finding that only 3 of 85 films with Jewish themes made since 2008 depicted it. What percent of American Jews said they had trouble paying their bills at least once in the last year in 2021?

14%

26%

38%

The first openly gay rabbi to serve on the clergy of a U.S. Orthodox synagogue came out this week in the Forward. Where is his shul?

Boca Raton, Florida

Brooklyn, New York City

Oakland, California

Scarsdale, New York

Which group at Rice University has severed ties with the school's Hillel branch?

Its Chabad chapter

Its Jewish studies academic department

Its hiking club

Its LGBTQ+ alliance

Jewish News Quiz: Oct. 6, 2023

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