Jewish News Quiz: Oct. 28, 2022

Why did students at George Washington University find national media coverage of someone breaking into a fraternity house and desecrating a Torah to be overblown? (check all that apply)

The Torah was only a small replica

The fraternity was not Jewish and the attacker did not appear to be targeting the Torah

The student who confessed was motivated by a personal dispute, not antisemitism

The damage to the Torah was easily repaired

Why are some viewers of the reality TV show "Love is Blind" hesitant to embrace Alexa?

In college, she was an activist with AIPAC

In college, she was an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine

An old Twitter account under her name contains borderline-antisemitic posts

She's from Israel, leading them to speculate that she may be a Zionist

The fourth anniversary of the Tree of Life massacre was this week. How do many native Pittsburghers refer to it?

The massacre

10.27

The black day

They avoid any one specific label

Why did Jewish immigrant Barney Dreyfuss invent the World Series?

To showcase his then-successful team, the Pittsburgh Pirates

To finance an expedition to the South Pole

To raise money to pay off his gambling debts

To upstage his rival team, the Red Sox, who had proposed a similar competition

Israeli president Isaac Herzog was invited to do what during his visit to Washington, D.C., this week?

Go on a surprise retreat with President Biden to Camp David

Address a joint session of Congress next year for Israel's 75th anniversary

Install a mezuzah in the Oval Office

Adopt a ceremonial role on AIPAC's board of directors

Kanye West, under fire for antisemitic remarks, did what this week? (select all that apply)

Visited a bagel shop outside Los Angeles

Showed up unannounced to the Jewish-owned footwear company Skechers

Appeared at an antisemitic rally above the I-405 freeway in Los Angeles

Bragged, "I can say antisemitic things and Adidas can’t drop me," shortly before being dropped

A new off-Broadway play focuses on Camp Siegfried, a summer camp for German-American families opened around 1936. Which of the following is NOT true about the camp?

It stayed open until the end of World War II, despite government pressure to close

It named a street after Adolf Hitler

It was replaced with a residential community restricting homeownership to German-Americans until 2017

It was so popular that the train to it became known as the "Camp Siegfried Special"

What percentage of U.S. Adults believe that the U.S. Should be a "Christian nation," according to a new Pew survey?

4.7%

14%

34%

45%

Jewish News Quiz: Oct. 28, 2022

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