Science & Judaism Quiz

The Bible and Talmud saw science and Jewish tradition as pathways to the same divine truth. But still, the two regularly come in conflict. How much do you know about the relationship between science and Judaism?

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Question 1. What did Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook believe about Torah and science?
 The Torah must be subject to the scientific method in order to be believed
 Rather than attempting to read science into Torah, the two should be understood separately
 When there is a conflict between science and Torah, science is always wrong
 Neither science nor Torah is fully true

 

Question 2. Which instrument was renown Jewish physicist Richard Feynman known for playing?
 Violin
 Cello
 Bongos
 Harp
 Piccolo

 

Question 3. What topics are covered in modern ethnographic studies of the Jewish community?
 The Habad movement
 Memorialization of the Holocaust
 Trends in Jewish practice
 All of these
 None of these

 

Question 4. How did the rabbis of the Talmud view science?
 As a competing belief that excludes belief in God
 As an external force which must be ignored or destroyed
 As a valuable tool in halakhic (legal) decision making
 As a way to discredit Christianity

 

Question 5. Who was Anna O?
 One of the first people to be treated by psychoanalysis
 Bertha Pappenheim
 A notable figure in the scene of Berlin's intellectual salons
 A patient of Sigmund Freud
 All of these

 

Question 6. What event proved Einstein's Theory of Relativity right?
 A simple act of gravity.
 A solar eclipse.
 Shooting beams of light through a glass prism.
 It has still never been definitively proven.

 

Question 7. Who is the leading rabbi of the emerging Jewish-specific branch of psychology?
 Jill Jacobs
 Joseph Soloveitchik
 Abraham Twerski
 Peter Berger
 None of these

 

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