Jewish News Quiz: August 25, 2023
What does the Austrian town of Branau plan to do with the house where Hitler was born?
Tear it down
Turn it into a Holocaust museum
Turn it into a police station
Lease it to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance for use as their regional headquarters
The Conservative movement previously expelled any rabbi caught officiating an interfaith marriage. Following a meeting Wednesday, what will the consequence now be?
Still expulsion
A mandatory appearance in a rabbinic court that could impose a penalty up to expulsion (but likely won't)
Nothing; the movement still forbids the practice but will no longer punish for it
Nothing; the movement now allows interfaith marriage
Whose mezuzah was recently put up for sale on eBay?
Larry David
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Martin Luther King Jr.
Golda Meir
Malka Leifer, an Australian principal convicted of abusing Orthodox girls, was given a 15-year prison sentence by an Australian judge. Her trial was complicated by a lengthy extradition battle with which country to which she had fled?
Argentina
Israel
Singapore
South Africa
What is complicating the campaign of Ilias Kasidiaris, a Greek neo-Nazi, for mayor of Athens?
The Greek neo-Nazi party, as a designated hate group, cannot legally hold office
Infighting with another neo-Nazi also running for mayor
He has been in prison since 2021
Anti-fascist hackers drained his campaign's entire bank account
What did New York City mayor Eric Adams do during his visit to Israel this week?
Marched at an anti-government protest in Tel Aviv
Met with anti-government protest leaders
Abruptly canceled a planned meeting with anti-government protesters due to "unforeseen scheduling conflicts"
Posed for a photo with Itamar Ben-Gvir, causing protest leaders to cancel their planned meeting with him in response
A historical exhibit on view in a synagogue on the Lower East Side traces the history of Romaniote Jews, who lived where for 2,300 years?
Crimea
Greece
Northern Morocco
Sicily
The messy battle for control of Chabad of Poway, the Californian synagogue that endured a shooting in 2019, took what turn this week?
The shooting survivors released a joint statement opposing the Chabad movement's ruling on the synagogue leadership
The synagogue disaffiliated itself from the Chabad movement in an attempt to prevent it from forcing the rabbi to step down
The FBI raided the home of the synagogue's treasurer and is expected to charge him with tax fraud
A spy pen was discovered at a mediation talk
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