Complete Clue List
Across
1. Son of Ahaziah, eighth king of Judah (Alt spelling)
4. In Judaism, this is a joyous holiday
7. "Yamim Noraim", commonly known as the "Days of ___"
8. Minor prophet whose book comes chronologically between Micah & Habakkuk in the Bible
9. Assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, a main architect of the Holocaust; Jan ___
10. In Exodus, Moses parted the Red ___
11. Son of Beeri, one of the Twelve Prophets of the Jewish Hebrew Bible,
14. Welcomes, greets
17. Ritual feast to mark the start of the Passover; Passover ___
20. Wife of Abraham, one of the 4 matriarchs of Judaism
23. High Priest of Shiloh, raised Hannah's child Samuel in the tabernacle
24. Divine number in Judaism, symbolizes completion
25. First Jew to captain a major sport team at University Southern California; Jerome ___
26. Religious activist, one time Executive Director of Conference of European Rabbis; ___ Dunner
27. The son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, the twelfth judge of Israel
28. Purgatory: descended from Latin for "cleansing fire"; purgatorius ___
Down
1. Prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel, swallowed by a whale
2. Dust used in acts of mourning
3. Palm-shaped amulet, known as the Hand of Mary or the Hand of Miriam
4. Son of Remaliah, eighteenth and penultimate king of Israel
5. Spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism
6. Called Moshe Rabbenu, most important prophet in Judaism, led his people out of Egypt
12. Most important teaching and tenet of Judaism is that there is ___ God (Number)
13. The first woman, according to the Bible
15. Third king of the Kingdom of Judah and the fifth king of the House of David
16. 4th Century saint whose name is derived from Jacob's first wife
17. Anita Selzer's 2000 book, a tribute to the Holocaust survivors; "I Am ___"
18. Symbol of Judaism; Star of ___
19. French biblical scholar & Semitic languages expert; Joseph ___
20. Mount where Moses received the Tablets of Stone
21. Army that destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE
22. Ritually eaten to commemorate the miseries under Egyptian bondage; Bitter ___