Jewish News Quiz: Jan. 20, 2023

How did a segment of the Orthodox world react after an influencer's livestream was disrupted by a naked man?

Said she "got what you deserve" because of her feminist activism

Organized a crowdsourced investigative campaign that identified the perpetrator

Hired a professional livestream facilitator contractor to help prevent future incidents

Banned livestreaming

Who is the titular character in the new thriller The Man in the Basement?

A refugee from the Nazis in Vichy France

A Nazi SS agent in Vichy France

A rabbi kicked out of his congregation

A Holocaust-denying squatter

The Forward recently interviewed which former member of George Santos' campaign?

A gay, actually Jewish man who says he never questioned Santos' story

A fundraiser who makes paintings of the Holocaust

An anonymous staffer who says Santos refused to answer internal questions about his identity in the final weeks of the campaign

Santos' campaign manager, who says he regrets taking the job

Josh Shapiro plans to have a kosher kitchen at the Pennsylvania governor's mansion. Which U.S. President served kosher latkes as part of the first White House Hanukkah party?

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

George W. Bush

Barack Obama

What did fans of White Sox ace Dylan Cease learn about him this week?

That he has Jewish roots

That he attended a Jewish day school, even though he is not Jewish

That he ended his friendship with catcher Jake Powell over Powell's antisemitic remarks on talk radio

That he has volunteered at a local synagogue for years, initially as teshuva for antisemitism in his youth

What did Harvard University do this week after an outcry alleging that they denied the former director of Human Rights Watch a fellowship there over his criticism of Israel?

Rehired him and said "it was wrong of us to use his legitimate political stances as a basis of evaluation"

Rehired him but maintained that their initial decision was unrelated to his comments

Gave the fellowship to a staunchly pro-Israel author instead

Unearthed previously unpublished antisemitic remarks he made during a 2011 campus visit

What objection does a synagogue in Woodstock, New York, have to a proposed "glamping" site?

That the deforestation to build it would be violate Jewish law

That its owner has made allegedly antisemitic remarks

That its noise would disrupt Shabbat services

That its waste would dirty a pond used as a mikvah

What did the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy do with a painting of Jesus at sea in a prominent classroom?

Moved it to the dining hall, an even more prominent location

Obscured it with a curtain

Took it down and moved it to their museum

Tried to take it down, accidentally damaging it beyond repair in the process

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