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?

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

Jewish News Quiz: July 14, 2023

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