Jewish News Quiz: Jan. 6, 2023
What does Prince Harry say in his new memoir about his infamous decision to wear a Nazi costume to a 2005 theme party?
That he would do it again
That he received corporal punishment for it
That he did it at the urging of his brother, Prince William
That he did it "with the blessing of a close Jewish friend"
A unit of Bucharest's city council recently voted to do what?
Keep a bust of a Nazi collaborator in a city park
Remove a bust of a Nazi collaborator from a city park
Remove the unit on the Holocaust from the social studies curriculum
Censure a colleague who retweeted a neo-Nazi group on Twitter
The first winter edition in 85 years of the Maccabi Games, the "Jewish Olympics," took place this week in what country?
Israel
Germany
United States
Sweden
Which entry from the Forward's list of the hottest Jewish trends for 2023 was declared wired?
Pickles
My Unorthodox Life
Hanukkah gnomes
Jewish dating apps
Which of the following did Pope Benedict XVI, who died this week at 95, NOT do?
Made the first papal visit to an American synagogue
Participated in the Hitler Youth during World War II
Allowed the use of a prayer that seeks to convert Jews to Christianity
Made Pope Pius XII, who remained silent during the Holocaust, a saint
More American Jews are choosing cremation. Which of the four major Jewish movements discourage the practice?
Orthodox
Orthodox and Conservative
Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform
Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist
What happened this week at the Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery in Jerusalem?
A judge ruled against a developer seeking to move the cemetery to make way for a new wing of an adjacent synagogue
Two men who appeared to be Haredi Jews were captured on video vandalizing gravestones
Protesters interrupted the funeral of a Palestinian rights activist
Benjamin Netanyahu, seeking to quelch fears his government will be hostile to Christians, toured it
In his whimsical predictions for 2023, the Forward's PJ Grisar imagines what fate for a Twitter competitor called "Kvetch"?
It gets acquired by Elon Musk, who is legally obligated to convert to Judaism to close the deal
It wins over antisemites who find themselves gradually charmed by Jewish humor
It loses popularity after yielding to hard-liners who insist it close down every Shabbat
It launches a viral feature that pairs you with an ideological enemy for you to debate
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