REFORM JUDAISM


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(All answers can be found in the Winter 2000 issue.)
  1. What is the Hebrew word for marriage?

  2. Which U.S. president said of the Jews: "Jesus Christ couldn't please them when he was here on earth, so how could expect that I would have any luck?"

  3. When Israel bombed an American intelligence ship in the Mediterranean Sea, what U.S. president accepted Israel's apology that it had been a mistake, even though the ship was clearly marked and Israeli planes had made more than a dozen reconnaissance flights over it the previous day?

  4. Which U.S. president signed a bill which led to the inclusion of Holocaust studies in schools across America?

  5. Which U.S. president, when chided for not wearing a hat while holding a Torah, joked: "But Arthur, I am a Reform Jew"?

  6. What did the Balfour Declaration of 1917 state about the treatment of Arabs living in Palestine?

  7. The great Kabbalist Nachmanides taught that God constantly directs the world in two ways. What are they?

  8. Name the city in India which is home to the country's only Progressive synagogue.

  9. What is musar?

  10. Explain the meaning of the holiday Rosh Chodesh.
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