RASHI, RAMBAM and RAMALAMADINGDONG

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Question #7 – Volume א (Aleph)

For what was Boris Pasternak known?

A. He developed the process of pasteurizing milk.

B. He was a Nobel laureate who wrote Dr. Zhivago.

C. He was the arch enemy of Bullwinkle.

D. He was a leader of the Russian refusenik movement, who was finally granted an exit visa in 1979, after 12 years in prison.

E. He was a former member of the Soviet Politburo who later served in the Israeli Knesset.

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Question #96– Volume בּ (Bet)

What is Midrash?

A. A skin disease common in the ancient Middle East.

B. A popular mode of dress among Israeli teenage girls, wherein the pupik is exposed.

C. A method of interpreting scripture through stories or homilies.

D. The collected commentaries of Rashi.

E. The collection of writings by the priests of ancient Israel.

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Question #6– Volume ג (Gimel)

For what is Moshe Sofer known?

A. He was a leading rabbi in Vilna, Lithuania in the early 20th century, who wrote a commentary called the Bracha Sofer.

B. He was a leading rabbi in Warsaw, Poland in the late 19th century, who wrote a commentary called the Safam Sofer.

C. He was a leading rabbi in Pressburg, Hungary in the late 18th and early 19th century, who wrote a commentary called the Chasam Sofer.

D. He was a leading rabbi in Kiev, Ukraine in the mid 18th century, who wrote a commentary called the Yiddishe Sofer.

E. He was a leading rabbi in Shlufsberg, Russia, in the mid 20th century, who wrote a commentary called the Shleeper Sofer.

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Question #74– Volume ד (Dalet)

What was the Zion Mule Corps?

A. A Jewish military organization founded by Joseph Trumpeldor in 1915 to assist the British in freeing Palestine from the Turks during World War I.

B. Founded in 1895, it was the first public transportation company in Palestine.

C. An organization of stubbornly pro-Israel American Jews.

D. A kosher meat company in Israel.

E. Prior to the establishment of the Israeli Defense Forces in 1948, this was the cavalry division of the paramilitary Haganah organization. Horses could not be procured, so the fighters rode on muleback instead.

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