Jewish News Quiz: August 18, 2023

Tel Aviv's light rail system opened this week. What has been controversial about it?

Gender-segregated cars catering to Haredi passengers

The Knesset cut funding to its second branch, seemingly in retaliation for the city's opposition to the judicial overhaul

It will not run during Shabbat

Security screenings at the underground stations downtown are likely to target Arabs, activists say

A new Holocaust museum recently opened where?

At the site of Hitler's vacation home in the Bavarian Alps

At the bottom of a mineshaft in Slovakia

In the video game Fortnite

In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the country's first such museum

Dan Fellner wrote this week about Jewish life in Greenland. How many Jews are there estimated to be among the territory's 56,000 permanent inhabitants?

A dozen

400

Jack Lew is rumored to be the front-runner for the next U.S. Ambassador to Israel. What was his previous high-profile role?

Secretary of the Interior

Secretary of the Treasury

Ambassador to Iran

U.S. Representative for New York's 13th Congressional District

The upcoming film Maestro has been criticized because its non-Jewish lead actor, Bradley Cooper, wears a prosthetic nose to play Leonard Bernstein. How did Bernstein's children react?

Defended Cooper's portrayal and said their father wouldn't have minded

Wrote a statement in their father's voice imagining how they think he would have responded to the controversy

Revoked the estate's support for the film, threatening its release

Announced that they had signed on as executive producers to a rival Bernstein biopic, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, set to be released in late 2024

What did Israeli journalist Neria Kraus say happened this week on a United flight to Israel after she refused to change seats to accommodate a Haredi man?

The passenger shoved her while a nearby flight attendant did nothing

A flight attendant yelled at her, threatening to blame her for delays

United forced her to make the switch, then offered her a $1,200 voucher if she agreed not to speak up about it

She was escorted off the plane due to an unspecified "security inquiry"

The Forward recently profiled this Jewish artist, born 100 years ago. Who is he?

Comedian Mel Brooks

Singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen

Mime Marcel Marceau

Dancer Jerome Robbins

Jewish groups were outraged in June after anti-Israel protesters who brawled with Jews at a restaurant were given no jail time. What recent development complicated the story?

A decision by the appeals court to vacate the sentence because of police misconduct during evidence collection

Evidence that it was likely the restaurant patrons who started the brawl

A report released by the court-mandated psychiatrist that concluded the main attacker was too mentally incapacitated to be held legally responsible for his actions

The newly released trial transcripts show that none of the restaurant patrons were actually Jewish

Jewish News Quiz: August 18, 2023

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