Test Your KnowLedge

P) True or false: The Ten Commandments
I only mention the importance of honoring
one's father.

Q) When the famous Jewish scholar Judah Ha-
Nasi was on his deathbed, he directed his
sons to

1 R) What woman in the Torah so yearned for a

child that she promised to give her life to God
if only he gdve her a son?

I S) Outside of being in the entertainment
I business, what do all the following have in
I common? Robert de Niro, actor; Goldie
Hawn and Dyan Cannon, both actresses;
and Beck Hansen, Carnie Wilson, Country
Joe McDonald, Laura Nyro and Mick Huck-
-wag I
nail, all singers.

This little quiz about women is in honor o
Mother's Day, this Sunday.

T) What is the Women's Equal Rights Law

of 1951?

1 U) What's the name of the ceremony that

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QUESTIONS
A) The Hebrew word for mother is

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I B) Which Jewish actress played Barry

Manilow's mom in the TVfilm Copacabana
and Cher's mother in Mask?

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I) True or false: Halacha, Jewish law, does not
I require a woman .to marry.

J) Can you name-the woman cellist who per-
t formed on the Nirvana Unplugged CD?

K) Who was Sarah Aaronsohn?

was
D) Yitzhak's [Isaac] marriage to
said to comfort him after his mother died.

L) Who was the star of America's longest-run-
ning radio daytime serial?

F) Lizzie Seliger, a native of Odessa, had five
I children with her husband, Morris, who immi-
; grated to the United States from Vilna. Their
son Yitzhak grew up to be which actor?

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H) Which book of the Tanach is most replete
with verses about the value of a mother?

C) Fill in the blank. A Yiddish proverb says: "A
girl is like velvet; by all means

E) Which Jewish holiday also is known as
I the "women's holiday," because on this
iday women are to abstain from unneces-
sary chores?

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G) What% the name of the famous biblical
prophetess, counselor, poet andmilitary leader?

M) Can you name Kind David's grandmother?

N) What woman, whose admirers included
V.I. Lenin, was the founder of the German
Communist Party?

0) What was the first woman's organization

1 marks the birth of a Jewish girl?
•
I V) True or false: According to the sage Hillel,
I one has fulfilled the mitzvah to "be fruitful and
multiply" provided he has at least one son --
1 but makes no mention of a daughter.
•
W) The rabbis said that a man must buy new
I clothes for his wife for which holiday?

I X) Now married to a Jewish actress and the

father of three children, what popular actor
said that he wanted to marry a Jewish
I woman because they make the best wives
and mothers?

Y) What famous woman said, "I am not a
great admirer of the kind of feminism that gives
I : rise to bra burning, hatred of men or a cam-
I paign against motherhood, but I have had a
I very great regard for those energetic, hard-
; working women"?

Z) What was "A Brivele Der Mamen"?

in the modern Land of Israel?

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