2: Adam and Eve, The Garden of Eden
3: Cain and Abel, "Am I my brother's keeper?"
5: Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
6: Matriarchs: Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah
8: Binding of Isaac / Akedat Yitzchak
9: Voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau
11: Joseph and his brothers
12: Seven fat years, seven lean years
15: Burning bush / I shall be what I shall be
17: Ten plagues, "And God hardened Pharaoh's heart"
18: Splitting of the Red Sea
20: Mount Sinai and the giving of the Torah
21: Covenant / Brit "We shall do and we shall hear"
22: Ten Commandments / Aseret ha-Dibrot
25: Sacrifices, priests and Levites
26: Love your neighbor as yourself, I am the Lord
27: Twelve spies, "The land of milk and honey"
29: Balaam's talking donkey, "A people that dwells alone"
30: No one knows his burial place to this day
31: Joshua and the walls of Jericho
32: Land of Canaan / The seven nations of Canaan
33: Deborah the Prophetess
35: Samuel, "We must have a king over us that we may be like all the other nations"
40: David and Nathan / "You are the man!"
41: David and Absalom, "O Absalom, my son, my son!"
43: Temple / Beit ha-Mikdash
44: Secession of the Ten Northern Tribes
45: Ahab and Jezebel, "Have you murdered and also inherited?"
48: Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon
50: Isaiah, "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation," "A light unto the nations"
52: Ezekiel, The Valley of the Dry Bones
53: Amos, "Let justice well up like water"
55: Micah, "To do justice and to love goodness, and to walk modestly with your God"
From the Ketuvim / Writings
56: Psalms, "The Lord is my shepherd," "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem"
58: Ruth and Naomi, "Your people shall be my people, and your God my God"
59: Ecclesiastes, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity"
60: Esther, Mordechai, Haman, "There is a certain people"
61: Daniel in the Lion's Den, The writing on the wall
62: Cyrus the Great, King of Persia
63: Ezra and Nehemiah, The rebuilding of the Jewish community in Israel.
Part 2: Second Commonwealth, The Mishna And The Talmud
64: Antiochus Epiphanes, King of Syria, and the Selecuid Empire
65: Maccabees, Hasmoneans, Mattathias, Judah Maccabee
66: Hannah and her seven sons
67: Rome takes over Jerusalem, 63 BCE
68: Hillel, The golden rule, The Prosbul
71: Jesus, The crucifixion, Pontius Pilate, The New Testament
73: Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Dead Sea sect
74: Great Revolt, 66-70 CE Zealots
75: Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, "Give me Yavneh and its sages"
76: Destruction of the second temple, 70 CE
80: Bar-Kokhba Rebellion, 132-135 CE
82: Oral law, written law
83: Babylonian Talmud / Palestinian Talmud, Mishna, Rabbi Judah the prince / Tanna'im, Amora'im
84: Halakha, Aggadata, Midrash
Part 3: Early Medieval Period: Under Islam And Christianity
86: Pact of Umar, Dhimmis
87: Sa'adiah Gaon, The Gaonim
88: Resh Galuta, Exilarch
91: Golden Age of Spanish Jewry
92: Judah Halevi / The Kuzari
95: Ban on polygamy, The decrees of Rabbi Gershom
96: Rashi, Rabbenu Tam, The Rishonim
98: Fourth Lateran Council, Yellow badge
99: Burning of the Talmud
100: Jewish-Christian disputations, Moses Nachmanides and the debate in Barcelona, Spain, 1263
101: Expulsion of Jews from England, 1290
102: Spanish Inquisition, Marranos
104: Spanish expulsion, 1492.
Part 4: Late Medieval Period
107: Code of Jewish Law / Shulkhan Arukh, Joseph Karo, Moses Isserles, the Rama
108: Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
109: Ashkenazim and Sephardim, Yiddish and Ladino
110: Chmielnitzki Massacres, 1648-1649
112: Excommunication of Spinoza, Kherem
113: Court Jews, Shtadlanim
114: Hasidim and Mitnagdim, Israel Ba'al Shem Tov
116: Moses Mendelssohn, Enlightment / Haskala
Part 5: Modern Period-Western And Eastern Europe
117: Emancipation, "To the Jews as individuals, all rights, to the Jews as a people, no rights"
118: Napoleon's Sanhedrin
119: Baptism and apostasy
121: Samson Raphael Hirsch, neo-orthodoxy
122: Damascus blood libel
123: Rabbi Israel Salanter, The Musar movement
125: Martin Buber, I and thou
Part 6: Zionism And Israel
133: If I forget thee, O Jerusalem
136: Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State
137: First Zionist Congress, 1897
139: Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook / Rav Kook
140: Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and the revival of Hebrew
141: Aliyah, Chalutz, Chalutzim
143: Balfour Declaration, 1917, The British Mandate
145: Haganah, Irgun-bombing of the King David Hotel, Lekhi, Palmach
147: Vladimir Jabotinsky, The Revisionists
149: Hebron Massacre, 1929
150: British White Paper, 1939
151: DP Camps, The Exodus
152: United Nations vote for Partition, 1947
153: Proclamation of Israel's Independence, 1948, Medinat Yisrael
159: Ingathering of the Exiles / Kibbutz Galuyot, "Operation magic carpet"
160: Knesst, Labor Party, Likud, Religious Parties
161: Israel Defense Forces / Tzahal, Reserve duty / Mi-lew-im
163: Six-day war, 1967, The "Green Line"
164: Western wall / Kotel ha-Ma'aravi
165: PLO, Munich massacre, Oslo Accords
166: United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338
168: Yom Kippur War, 1973
169: West Bank versus Judea and Samaria, Gush Emunim
170: United Nations Resolution on Zionism, 1975
172: Menachem Begin elected prime minister, 1977
173: Anwar Sadat's visit to Jersulam, Camp David
174: Peace now / Shalom Akhshav
176: Law of Return, "Who is a Jew?"
178: Ashkenazim and Sephardim
181: Assassination of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, 1995
182: Camp David, 2000, The second intifada
183: Israel's disengagement from Gaza, 2005
184: Hezbollah's war against Israel, 2006, an Iranian nuclear bomb?
185: Adolf Hitler and Nazism, Mein Kampf, Aryan race, Nuremberg Laws
187: Munich, 1938, appeasement
189: While six million died, S S St Louis
190: Einsatzgruppen, Babi Yar, 1941
191: Final solution, genocide, holocaust
192: Concentration camps, Auschwitz, Treblinka, Theresienstadt
196: Warsaw ghetto revolt
197: Nuremberg trials, 1946
200: Yad Vashem, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
201: Righteous Gentiles, Raoul Wallenberg, Oskar Schindler
203: Holocaust revisionists
206: 614th Commandment: not to grant Hitler posthumous victories
Part 8: American-Jewish Life
207: George Washington's letter to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island, 1790
208: Reform Judaism, Issac Mayer Wise, Hebrew Union College
209: Pittsburgh platform, 1885, Columbus platform, 1937
210: Conservative Judaism, Jewish Theological Seminary, Solomon Schechter
212: Ellis Island, Lower East side
216: Jewish Organizations: UJC (United Jewish Communities), Anti-Defamation League, AIPAC, Conference of Presidents of major Jewish Organizations, CLAL, Simon Wiesenthal Center, B'nai B'rith, American Jewish Committee
217: Henrietta Szold, Hadassah
220: Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik
221: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
222: Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, reconstructionism, Juddaism as a civilization
223: Rabbi Moshe Feinstein / Reb Moshe
224: Sunday school, Hebrew School / Talmud Torah, Day School, Yeshiva
227: Lubavitch, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn
228: Ba'al Teshuva Movement
229: Denominational conflicts
230: Vanishing American Jew: low birthrate, assimilation, and intermarriage
231: Senator Joseph Lieberman's nomination as the Democratic Vice President Candidate, 2000
234: Russian-Jewish Simkhat Torah celebrations
236: Prisoners of conscience, Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky
237: Jackson-Vanik amendment, Detente
238: Soviet Jewry movement, Student struggle for Soviet Jewry
239: Let my people go! "Am Yisrael Chai"
244: Antisemitism, The Scapegoat Thesis
245: Protocols of the Elders of Zion
246: Deicide, Pope John XXIII, Vatican II
Tanakh / Torah / Nevi'im / Ketuvim-see entry 1
249: Ethics of the Fathers / Pirkei Avot
Mishna / Talmud / Babylonian Talmud / Jerusalem Talmud-see entry 83
Siddur, Makhzor-see entry 342
250: Guide to the Perplexed / Moreh Nevukhim Rashi-see entry 96
251: Responsa literature / She'elot ve-Teshuvot
Shulkhan Arukh-see entry 107
Jewish state-see entry 136
I and thou and Tales of the Hasidim-see entry 125
255: Steinsaltz Talmud, the ArtScroll Talmud
Part 12: Jewish Ethics And Basic Beliefs
256: Commandement / Mitavah, The 613 Mitzvot of the Torah, Mitzvot between people and each other and Mitzvot between people and God / Bein Adam le-Khavero, Bein Adam la-Makom
258: Do not put a stumbling block in front of a blind man
259: Justice, justice you shall pursue
261: Do not stand idly by while your brother's blood is shed
262: For you were strangers in the land of Egypt
263: Not to oppress the stranger, the orphan, and the widow
264: Fathers shall not be put to death for the sins of sons, nor sons for the sins of fathers
266: Who says your blood is redder?
270: Mensch, Menschlikhkeit
271: Tzaddik, The thirty-six hidden saints
272: Kiddush Ha-Shem, Khillul Ha-Shem
273: Redeeming captives / Pidyon Shvuyim
274: Where life is at stake / Pikuakh Nefesh
275: Lashon ha-Ra / Gossip
276: Prevention of cruelty to animals / Tza'ar Ba'alei Khayyim
277: Honoring parents / Kibud Av va'Em
278: Whoever saves a single life it is as if he saved an entire world
279: Visiting the sick / Bikur Kholim
280: Acts of loving-kindness / Gemilut Khesed Free-Loan Societies / Gemilut Khesed funds
281: Hospitality / Hakhnasat Orkhim
282: Righteous non-Jews / Hasidei Ummot ha-Olam
283: Family harmony / Shalom Bayit
284: You can't say, "I was just following orders" / Ain Shaliakh le-Dvar Aveirah
285: Repentance / Teshuva
287: How and when to criticize
288: Yetzer ha-Tov and Yetzer ha-Ra
289: Messiah / Ma-shi-akh, Messianism
290: Afterlife / Olam ha-Ba
291: Ethical Monotheism, perfection of the world / Tikkun Olam
292: Divine providene / Hashgakha Pratit, Bashert
293: Idolatry / Avodah Zara
295: Torah study / Talmud Torah.
Part 13: Hebrew Calendar And Jewish Holidays
296: Listing of Jewish Holidays in context of Solar/Lunar calendar
297: New Year/Rosh ha-Shana, High Holy Days, Days of Awe/Yamin Nora'im, Shofar, Makhzor, apples and honey
299: Ten Days of Repentance/ Aseret y'meir teshuva, may you be inscribed for a good year/ Le-Shana Tova Teekataivu
300: Yom Kippur, Kol Nidrei, Ne'ilah
301: Sukkot, Sukka, Lulav and Etrog, Shimini Atzeret
303: Simkhat Torah, Hakafot
304: Hanukka, Menorah, Dreidl
305: Tu B'Shvat, planting trees
306: Purim, Fast of Esther, Grogger, Mishloakh Manot
308: Passover/Pesach, Searching for Leaven / Bedikat Khametz
310: Seder, Matazah, Maror, four cups of wine, Elijah's Cup, Afikoman
311: Holocaust Memorial Day/Yom ha-Shoa
312: Israeli Independence Day/Yom ha-Atzma'ut, Remembrance Day/Yom ha-Zikaron
314: Jerusalem Day/Yom Yerushalayim
315: Counting the Omer, Shavuot, Tikkun
316: Three Weeks/Nine days
317: Ninth of Av/Tisha Be'Av, Lamentations/Eicha
319: New month/Rosh Khodesh
320: Sabbath/Shabbat, Thirty-nine Melakhot, Muk-tze, Eruv
321: Sabbath rituals in the house, candle lighting, blessing the children, woman of valor, two challot, Kiddush, Netilat Yadayim, Ha-Motzi, Zmirot, grace after meals/Birkat ha-Mazon, Shabbat Shalom! Gut Shabbes!
322: Third meal/Shalosh Se'udot
324: Circumcision/Brit Milah, redemption of the firstborn/Pidyon ha-Ben, naming ceremony for girls
325: Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah
326: Aufruff, marriage ceremony/Kiddushin, Sheva Brakhot, breaking the glass, groom and bride/Khattan ve-Kalla
327: Marriage contract/Ketuba
328: Mikveh, laws of family purity/Taharat ha-Mishpakha
330: Jewish divorce/Get, Agunah
332: Burial society/Chevra Kadisha
333: Kri'a, Shiva, Shiva visit, Aveilut
334: Mourner's Kaddish, Yahrzeit, Yizkor, peace be upon him/Alav ha-Shalom, peace be upon her/Aleha ha-Shalom
336: Kosher, Kashrut, meat and milk/Milchig and Fleishig, Pareve, ritual slaughter/Shekhita, Mashgiakh
Part 15: Synagogue And Prayers
337: Temple/Synagogue/Shul/Shtiebl, Jewish Community Centers
340: Rabbinic ordination/Semikha
341: Common terms used in the Synagogue: Bimah, Mizrakh, Aron Kodesh, Hagba and Glila, Chazzan, Gabbai, Ba'al Koh-rey, Trope
342: Siddur/Makhzor, Morning service/Shakharit, Afternoon service/Minkha, Evening service/Ma'ariv, additional service on Shabbat and Holidays/Mussaf
343: Torah scroll/Sefer Torah
344: Torah portion of the week/Parshat ha-Shavua, Haftorah, Dvar Torah
345: Aliyah, priest, Levite, Israelite/Kohain, Levi, Yisra'el
346: Priestly blessing/Dukhaning
350: Some famous prayers: Barkhu, Amidah, Kedusha, Ashrei, Adon Olam, Ein Kayloheinu, Aleinu, Hallel
352: Blessing/Brakha, Ha-Motzi, grace after meals/Birkat ha-Mazon, She-he-khi-yanu