Jewish News Quiz: April 7, 2023

Many Jews have set an empty Seder plate this year for Evan Gershkovich. Who is he?

An AP reporter who was shot and wounded in the Gaza Strip in March

A Wall Street Journal reporter imprisoned by Russia

A rabbi in Luhansk executed by Russian occupiers

A Jewish student at The Covenant School in Nashville killed in a mass shooting

Which accommodation did chaplains at Rikers Island prison NOT have to make in order to host a Seder there?

Omitting the afikoman hunt

Not putting pillows on chairs to cushion them

Opening an interior door rather than one to the outside for Elijah

Having some inmates who lacked permission to leave their cells join over video

What happened at the Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington, D.C.?

The museum held its first-ever tour for a group of Israeli emissaries

It announced its pending closure due to financial difficulties

It was swarmed by federal agents after a 911 caller falsely reported that a gunman had taken visitors hostage

It closed temporarily after its director was arrested following an altercation outside the Israeli embassy

Israel conducted air strikes on targets in which two locations on Friday in retaliation for rocket attacks?

Gaza and Lebanon

Gaza and Syria

Gaza and the West Bank

Lebanon and Syria

Where was Kanye West on this year's Forbes’ billionaires list?

47 spots lower than last year, having lost a third of his wealth

Three spots higher than last year, having made wise investments despite his scandals

Off the list, having lost the brand deal with Adidas that made him a billionaire

Off the list because, Forbes said, "it would be inconsistent with our values" to include him

Jewish comedian Alex Edelman's one-man show will be coming to Broadway. What is it about?

His decision to leave the Orthodox world

His infiltration of a white supremacist group in Queens

His visit to tour concentration camps in Poland

His journey with his wife, who converted to Judaism before marrying him

Columbia University made what announcement this week about a research center in Tel Aviv?

That it will be opening despite criticism

That it has canceled plans to open the center

That it will be "reevaluating the plans" to open the center due to the judicial reform crisis

That it will also be opening a satellite research in the Palestinian city of Hebron

Congolese politician Moise Katumbi, the son of a Greek Holocaust refugee, is facing what obstacle in his presidential bid?

Accusations that he accepted bribes during his tenure as finance minister

Accusations that he fabricated large portions of his father's refugee story

A proposed law that would require candidates to have two native Congolese parents

Ads from his main opponent that smear his "colonialist heritage"

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