Jewish News Quiz: September 22, 2022

A High Holidays ad placed in The American Jewish World in 1964 by a local chemical plant had what message for Jews?

Our detergent can help you keep kosher

Congrats on your financial success

Congrats on assimilating into American society

We're sorry for our complicity during the Holocaust

In 2018, an estimated 40,000 Hasidic Jews thronged the streets of Uman, Ukraine, to visit the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov for Rosh Hashanah. How many are expected this year?

None

150

1,000

10,000

The new biographical play “Remember This” tells the story of Polish Holocaust resistance fighter Jan Karski. However, it falls short in its effort to inspire audiences to bear witness to injustice, writes Forward theater critic Irene Katz Connelly. How?

It uses non-Jewish actors in Jewish roles, a practice known as "Jew-Face"

It details how those in power ignored Karski, becoming an inadvertent meditation about how raising awareness isn't enough

An invented subplot about Karski escaping from Buchenwald stretches the bounds of credulity

Its lead sponsor was the New York Polish consulate, representing a government with a history of Holocaust denial

It has no dialogue, a bold but ultimately limiting artistic choice

Excessive use of props and video gives too little credit to the audience's imagination

American Jewish University, in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, has sold its campus. Why was its decision controversial?

The university accepted a bid from an international education company, rather than a slightly lower offer from a nearby Jewish school

Students protested that there were alternative options for remedying its budget shortfall

The new downtown campus is located in a neighborhood with a high crime rate

The university's prized sculpture collection was included in the sale rather than relocated

How will Rosh Hashanah services be different this year at Brodsky Synagogue in Kyiv, Ukraine?

There will be no apples and honey due to local food rationing

They will end sooner to comply with a mandatory curfew

They will be held via Zoom from the synagogue's temporary relocated home in Western Ukraine

They will be held underground in a Kyiv Metro station to avoid potential missile attacks

What action did Yeshiva University take in response to a legal battle trying to force it to recognize its LGBTQ alliance?

Cut the budget of the student newspaper after it published an editorial supporting the alliance

Fired the dean of its graduate school of medicine, after he published a statement supporting the alliance

Suspended all student clubs until after the High Holidays

Emailed Pride Alliance leaders threatening disciplinary action unless they dissolved the club

The U.S. Space Force has debuted its official theme song, “Semper Supra.” What is its Jewish connection?

Its Jewish author, Jacob Blau, said its lyrics were inspired by a Talmud passage

It sounds a lot like the song "Jews in Space" from a comedic Mel Brooks film

The entire cast of its accompanying music video is Jewish

Twitter users discovered that its author, Patrick Tycott, followed numerous neo-Nazi accounts

Jewish News Quiz: September 22, 2022

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