Jewish News Quiz: July 14, 2023
What happened this week in the trial of the gunman who killed 11 Jewish worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018?
The jury found him guilty of 63 charges, including hate crimes
The jury found him eligible to face the death penalty
The jury sentenced him to death
The judge ruled that his lawyers could not pursue an insanity defence
What is wrong with The Jewish Museum's exhibit on the collections of the Sassoon family, according to a Forward opinion article by Elizabeth M. Lynch?
It was funded by the Sackler family
It contains works that ought to be repatriated to China
It requires an $18 special exhibition ticket, limiting access to knowledge that should be free to all
It glosses over the devastation they caused through the opium trade
An NYC Department of Education probe into Orthodox schools recently found that how many yeshivas failed to provide basic secular instruction to their students?
5
18
47
All of them
Israel's soccer team recently qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics. When was the last time they competed?
Berlin 1936
Montreal 1976
Barcelona 1992
Never
Remains from a Munich synagogue destroyed by the Nazis in 1938 were recently uncovered where?
In a river, helping to buttress a nearby dam
In an industrial waste dumping zone being cleaned up
In a Polish town 417 miles away, where they were taken to be reused as raw materials
In the collections of the Alte Pinakothek museum, which had misidentified them as remains from Nazi buildings
An amendment to the defense authorization bill proposed by Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, would do what?
Require the military to stock Bibles in its guest lodges
Prohibit the Department of Defense from communicating with or responding to complaints by a group that seeks to separate church and state in the military
Award a $2 million contract for decorating Army headquarters to an Ohio artist known for his evangelical Christian works
Cut the funding for a program that bolsters the number of military chaplains for minority religions
Brandeis University's president apologized after it ran an ad in The New York Times Magazine calling itself “anything but Orthodox.” What did Brandeis Rabbi Seth Winberg have to say in the Forward?
The ad is a symptom of the university's persistent neglect for Orthodox students
Despite the ad, the university is actually a welcoming place for observant students
The ad was blunt but correct — the university's values do not align with the Orthodox movement
The president's public apology rings hollow given reports he privately called the incident a "fuss over nothing"
What happened this week in an effort to land an Israeli spacecraft on the moon?
The U.K. announced it would no longer collaborate on the project, a diplomatic response to the judicial overhaul effort
An electrical malfunction contaminated a clean room housing spacecraft components, which will cost $4 million to repair
Benjamin Netanyahu fired the project's director, leaving it adrift
The project's major benefactor withdrew
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