Fun Facts
- Judaism is passed down through the mother, so if your mother was a Jew, you are a Jew.
- The word Jew originally came from people who hate Jewish people.
- Judaism is the only religion in the world that has lost its holy land and was able to regain it.
- At age 13 Jews are considered adults.
- Judaism is the oldest of the monotheistic faiths. Monotheism is the belief that there is only one god.
- Hebrew is written right-to-left, Hebrew is taught to all Jews
- Almost any Jewish law can be broken to save a human life
- Helping the poor and needy is a duty in Judaism
- There are about 13-14 million Jews in the world. About 80% of them live in Israel and the United States
- Hanukkah remembers the re-dedication of the Temple after it was defiled by the Greeks