Observant Jews avoid speaking God’s name, out of reverence.

The Mishnah is based directly on the Talmud.

The Pharisees focused on Torah, rather than on the Temple.

Judaism became the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century.

Jews lived in relative peace and prosperity in Muslim Spain and Poland during the medieval period.

The Kabbalah does not observe the basic forms of Jewish practice, such as keeping the commandments of the Torah.

Jewish mystics are more focused on the ultimate transcendence of God than on the immanence of God.

Large Hasidic communities still exist today in North America and elsewhere.

Fewer than half of the world’s Jews live in Israel.

Israel is

The word Torah means

The foundation of Judaism is

Judaism is

The United Kingdom of Israel was under

The first Temple of the Jews was destroyed by the

In the Exile, many Jews were deported to

The _____ led a revolt against the Greeks in 168 BCE.

The existence of the Essene community was revealed in modern times through the discovery of

The _____ began a process of systematically transforming the Temple rituals for practice outside the Temple.

The most famous of the 613 laws in the Torah, found in chapter 20 of Exodus.

The vast depository blending together the oral and written forms of Torah, based on the Mishnah with extensive rabbinic commentary.

Describes the Jews who live outside their homeland, a circumstance that has been true for most Jews since the classical period

What Yom Kippur emphasizes

A coming-of-age ritual for a Jewish girl.