By Joel Magalnick Editor, The Jewish Sound
Now that 2015 has begun, what from the past year are you trying to forget? Fear not, because we’ve got 14 stumpers to jog your memory with Jewish Washington’s second annual news quiz!
1. The Napkin Friends food truck is so Jewish because it:
a. Serves its sandwiches on potato latkes
b. Cooks the entire menu in schmaltz, even the donuts
c. Is based on the chef’s grandmother’s Sephardic recipes
d. Is kosher
(Jan. 10)
2. Rachel Horvitz traveled to New Jersey in February to:
a. Take a much needed respite from Seattle’s overstimulating environment
b. Paint the faces of Seahawks fans at the Super Bowl
c. Attempt to make an unsuccessful last-ditch effort to represent the U.S. Olympic skating team
d. Stop over on her way to making aliyah
(Feb. 7)
3. A group of workers came from where to help clean up after the wildfires in Eastern Washington this past summer?
a. Spokane
b. Seattle
c. Czech Republic
d. Israel
(Aug. 22)
4. Early in the summer, Jews across the world were increasingly upset about:
a. The war in Gaza
b. Global warming
c. Three kidnapped Israeli boys
d. The Bamba shortage
(June 27)
5. In June, this journalist spoke before a crowd of 1,000 Jews in Seattle and urged us to fight the boycott movement against Israel:
a. Paul Krugman
b. Ari Shavit
c. Thomas Friedman
d. Peter Beinart
(June 13)
6. Which state university’s student senate voted to preemptively refuse consideration of boycott and divestiture campaigns based upon national origin?
a. Western Washington University
b. Central Washington University
c. University of Washington
d. Washington State University
(June 27)
7. When protesters attempted to block the entries to the ports of Seattle and Tacoma to stop an Israeli tanker from unloading they:
a. Burned down a building in Tacoma
b. Stopped the longshoremen from getting
to work
c. Were arrested en masse
d. Failed
(Sept. 5)
8. True or false: Two Israeli soldiers were taken captive during the Gaza War.
(on JewishSound.org)
9. In December, for what is believed to be the first time in Seattle’s history, this happened in the mayor’s office:
a. Two Jewish actors reenacted the birth of Jesus
b. A public candle lighting to celebrate Hanukkah
c. A bris
d. The city council stormed the office and took the mayor hostage
(Jan. 9, 2015)
10. At protests against the war in Gaza over the summer, a man claiming to be a rabbi that spoke out against the incursion came from which anti-Israel group:
a. Naturei Karta
b. Shas
c. SeaMAC
d. WaMu
(on JewishSound.org)
11. JTNews celebrated which anniversary in 2014?
a. 100th
b. 75th
c. 90th
d. 40th
(May 23)
12. JTNews was not the only local Jewish organization to celebrate a big birthday. Which two celebrated the big 4-0 in 2014?
a. Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation and the Washington State Jewish Historical Society
b. The Washington State Jewish Genealogical Society and the Jewish Day School
c. The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and Congregation Ezra Bessaroth
d. The Stroum Center for Jewish
Studies at the University of Washington and the Northwest Yeshiva High School
(March 28 and May 9)
13. And if you think 40 is big, which two organizations turned 100 in 2014?
a. Kline Galland and Sephardic Bikur Holim
b. Kline Galland and Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath
c. The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and Jewish Family Service
d. Temple De Hirsch Sinai and Herzl-Ner Tamid
(March 7 and Oct. 17)
14. Which acts performed in the Stroum Jewish Community Center’s newly opened state-of-the-art auditorium?
a. Noa
b. Art Garfunkel
c. Book-It Repertory Theatre’s performance
of the JTNews historical production
“Letters to the Editor”
d. Book-It Repertory Theatre’s production of “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” (abridged)
e. All of the above
f. All of the above except for b