Judaism

3. Jews living away from their ancestral homeland.
4. Shabbat in Hebrew, the day set aside for rest.
7. Hebrew for "beginning of year.." Festival commemorating the new year.
9. A movement that saw the accomplishment of its goal of an Israeli state in 1948
10. The abbreviation for God's name
12. The belief in 1 God
16. Hostility toward Jews and Judaism
17. The first patriarch of the Jewish people, who God called to be the father of a great nation
18. Hebrew for “hear.” From Deuteronomy 6:4, Judaism’s most basic theological statement: “Hear O Israel: the Lord is our God, the Lord alone.”
20. Jews are not a race, they are an ______ group

1. Jewish mysticism
2. The persecution of Jews by German Nazis from 1933 to 1945 resulting in the murder of 6 million Jews.
5. Means "One who speaks for"
6. The first Passover included the spreading of this animal's blood over the doorposts
8. A form of Judaism that emphasizes mysticism and is led by a zaddik, a charismatic holy man.
10. Day of atonement, Judaism's most important holy day.
11. Received the Law at Mount Sinai and regarded as the Torah's author
13. Jewish house of worship
14. The 8 day festival commemorating the exodus of the Jews from Egypt
15. The Torah includes the first ____ books of the Bible.
19. Abbreviation for Tanakh