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Jewish holidays
Test your knowledge of Jewish holidays with this crossword puzzle!
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Whether you observe the High Holy Days, or have just seen a few Hanukkah cards by the Christmas Cards in December, you can still enjoy this crossword puzzle concerning Jewish Holidays and the practices associated with them!
Across:
 3 Part of the Passover meal, it's a mixture of apples, nuts, wine and spices that symbolize the mortar that the Jewish slaves made for bricks in Egypt
 4 Yiddish name for a noisemaker used during Purim during the reading of the Megillah
 5 The day on which the cycle of the public reading of the Torah is completed (two words)
 6 The fast day right before Purim (two words)
 8 Observant Jews build and live in a hut during the eight days of this holiday
 9 The father of Judas the Macabee
 13 Also known as the Day of Atonement (two words)
 14 Dough balls made of eggs, margarine, sugar, flour, baking powder and chopped nuts, mixed together with honey syrup, and eaten on Rosh Hashanah
 15 The ceremony of symbolically throwing away our sins into a flowing body of water on the afternoon of Rosh Hashanah
Down:
 1 The newest Jewish holiday of all, it was established when Israel liberated the Old City of Jerusalem in 1967 (two words)
 2 It's the letter that replaces the letter Shin on dreidels in Israel
 3 Three cornered pastries filled with prune or apricot preserves and eaten during Purim
 7 The ram's horn that is blown on Rosh Hashanah
 8 This holiday commemorates the giving of the Torah
 10 The fast that marks the day when the walls of the city of Jerusalem were breached, leading to the destruction of the First Temple (two words)
 11 The villian of Purim
 12 Known by Christians as the Last Supper, this meal is observed not only during Passover, but during Tu B'Shvat as well
 16 Doughnuts dropped in hot oil without being shaped and eaten during Hanukkah
 17 Potato pancakes fried in oil and eaten during Hanukkah
 
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