Jewish News Quiz: June 2, 2023

How has the Celebrate Israel Parade planned for Sunday in New York City responded to calls to disinvite Israeli government officials?

Given a progressive Zionist group the leading spot in the parade to "highlight the diversity of the Zionist movement"

Stated "we welcome participants with different viewpoints and opinions to show their love for Israel and participate in the parade"

Banned progressive Zionist groups from the parade due to fears they might decide to disrupt it

Removed the officials from the main parade, instead offering them speaking opportunities at a pre-parade event the day before

What happened this week at a historical lecture on the Holocaust in Poland in Warsaw?

A conservative Polish lawmaker smashed the speaker's microphone and knocked over loudspeakers, leading the event to be canceled

Right-wing protesters broke into the venue and stormed the event, injuring several attendees

The Polish government invoked an emergency resolution, forcing it to be canceled

A recording of the lecture led authorities to issue an arrest warrant for the speaker

Which of the following is NOT a possible reason why Jews eat dairy products to celebrate the holiday of Shavuot, which fell this past week?

A moniker for Mount Sinai is similar to a Hebrew word for cheese

The Song of Songs contains the line, "Honey and milk are under your tongue"

According to legend, the Israelites, after receiving the Torah, subsisted on dairy products until they figured out how to kasher meat

To celebrate the agricultural abundance of Israel, where so much wheat was harvested on this date that it was fed to cows

GOP Jewish House members are pushing a bill to defund colleges that host events promoting anti-Zionism, following what incident at CUNY?

Online harassment of CUNY's Jewish professional fraternity

Anti-Zionist and antisemitic graffiti on the campus Hillel

An editorial in the campus newspaper endorsing the BDS movement

An anti-Zionist commencement address at the CUNY law school

A Chabad outpost was recently opened in the Peruvian mountain town of Pisac, which has become a popular destination for Israelis who have completed their military service. What is the informal route they follow called?

Falafel Trail

Hummus Trail

Kibbutz Hop

Veterans' Trek

A survey by the Anti-Defamation League of ten countries — Germany, France, the U.K., Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia — found that which one had the lowest rate of antisemitism?

Germany

The U.K.

The Netherlands

Ukraine

The Sackler family, the Jewish billionaires whose marketing fueled the opioid epidemic, will pay how much in a deal shielding them from civil liability?

$110 million

$470 million

$6 billion

$17.4 billion

A new right-wing coalition has what aim?

To "fight back against the common left-wing smear" that opposing George Soros is antisemitic

To match every dollar Soros donates to political candidates with a donation to their opponents

To advise GOP candidates about how to criticize Soros without crossing the line into antisemitism and angering Jewish voters

To fund pseudoscientific studies investigating Soros' purported connections to the European migrant crisis

Jewish News Quiz: June 2, 2023

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