- In a response inserted into a UAHC time capsule in 1960, scheduled to be opened in October 1999, what prominent world leader predicted that by the year 2000, a Jew would become president of the United States?
- Name the first general institution of higher learning under Jewish auspices in the United States.
- What was the impetus for the 1983 CCAR resolution on patrilineal descent -- which asserted that, in the case of a mixed marriage, Jewish identity could, under certain conditions, be passed on to the children through their father?
- What, according to Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, is the one "Catholic-Jewish dispute that won't go away?"
- Jewish tradition offers us a partner to tikkun olam, the ongoing process of repairing the world by performing acts of social justice. Name the partner and explain why its role is so significant.
- When Moses sent twelve spies to scout out the land of Israel for conquest, ten of the twelve saw the obstacles as insuperable. Only two saw the task as achievable. Name them.
- What great Jewish thinker taught that every human being has the capacity to become a tzaddik -- a truly righteous person?
- Define midrash and explain its significance.
- At Solel Congregation in Ontario, Canada, children are being taught, successfully, in a different teaching environment. What is its distinction?
- From a Jewish perspective, what is the significance of circumcision?
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