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?
1
A dozen
47
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
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