Weddings Quiz

When planning a Jewish wedding, there are laws and traditions concerning everything from the engagement, to the procession, to the week after the wedding. How much do you know about Jewish weddings?

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Question 1. Which contemporary value has been the most powerful force for changing the traditional Jewish wedding ceremony?
 Egalitarianism
 Socioeconomic diversity
 Relative morality
 None of the above

 

Question 2. Why is Tuesday considered an especially auspicious day for a wedding? Which one is right?
 Because in the Creation Story, God mentioned twice that the day is good
 Because people have recovered from the weekend
 Because the Ten Commandments were delivered on a Tuesday
 Because the Temple was completed on a Tuesday

 

Question 3. Which Jewish movement has come out strongly in favor of same-sex marriages?
 Orthodox
 Conservative
 Haredi
 Reconstructionist

 

Question 4. True or false: A beit din, or Jewish court, is able to order a man to give a get to his wife.
 True
 False

 

Question 5. For how many days do the wedding celebrations continue after the wedding?
 3
 5
 7
 10

 

Question 6. Which of these practices aims to make the traditional Jewish wedding more egalitarian?
 Inserting the Lieberman clause in the ketubah
 Using a "brit ahuvim" (covenant of lovers) instead of a ketubah
 Asking women to be witnesses
 All of the above

 

Question 7. Agunot are women whose husbands
 Refuse to give them a bill of divorce
 Left them for another woman
 Cheated on them
 Died and left them as widows

 

Question 8. True or false: Tenaim, the ceremony where the couple signs the conditions of marriage, is required by Jewish law.
 True
 False

 

Question 9. What is a ketubah?
 A table
 A prayer shawl
 A marriage contract
 A seclusion room

 

Question 10. According to the 2001 American Religious Identification Survey, what portion of Jewish adults in America are members of interfaith families?
 One-fourth
 One-fifth
 One-half
 Three-quarters

 

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