Jewish News Quiz: August 11, 2023

What happened in Bangor, Maine, shortly after a neo-Nazi moved there to build a compound?

The city passed a budgetary measure giving additional security funding to the local synagogue

The city repealed a budgetary measure that had given additional security funding to the local synagogue

A local Planet Fitness gym banned him

Nearly a quarter of Bangor's residents fled

What are many tourists doing in Israel, according to the Forward's Mira Fox, reporting on location?

Joining in the marches

Canceling their vacations to avoid the disruption

Using their trips to educate themselves about Israeli democracy

Partying as normal

Ramah Yachad, a Ukrainian Jewish summer camp, is doing what this summer?

Holding sessions relocated to Romania

Holding virtual programming for the second year in a row

Holding sessions within Ukraine for the first time since the invasion

Transforming itself into a military training center

An Australian Jew won this year's world Scrabble championship. According to the Scrabble dictionary, which spellings of "schlep" are permissable?

None, because it is considered a foreign word

"Schelp" only

"Schlep" or "shlep"

"Shlep," "schlepp," "shlep," or "shlepp"

How did police respond to protesters' attempts to disrupt Benjamin Netanyahu's vacation in northern Israel?

Sprayed the protesters with water cannons and tear gas to disperse them

Blocked off roads and later hiking access points to keep them away

Locked down the hotel, which kept protesters away but also kept Netanyahu cooped up in his room

Supplied the protesters with water and reportedly joined them in an off-duty capacity

What happened when Herr's sought kosher certification for its roast pork sandwich-flavored potato chips?

The Orthodox Union denied it, but Herr's printed their hecksher anyways in a "regrettable labeling error"

The OU approved it because the chips contain no pork, but later asked them to remove the hecksher after blowback

The OU approved it because the chips contain no pork, and stood by the call despite blowback

The OU mistakenly approved it due to "a copy-paste error from entries for kosher Herr's products"

U.S. officials tempered expectations this week after media reports of a possible deal to normalize Israel's relations with which country?

Iran

Lebanon

Saudi Arabia

Yemen

A group of Yeshiva University professors wrote an op-ed in the Forward this week asking for what action?

The university to recognize its LGBTQ+ club

The university president to resign over his handling of the club

The Supreme Court to accept the case on whether the university must recognize the club

Incoming students to defer their enrollment until the university recognizes the club

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