CHICAGO, IL — A recent trivia competition between six Illinois Chabad-Lubavitch centers pitted some of the Jewish community's brightest minds against each other in a fun-filled display of wit and camaraderie.
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CHICAGO, IL — A recent trivia competition between six Illinois Chabad-Lubavitch centers pitted some of the Jewish community’s brightest minds against each other in a fun-filled display of wit and camaraderie.
Richard Sexner, who is active at Lubavitch Chabad of Niles – F.R.E.E. in Des Plaines, Ill., created the annual Knowledge Bowl – held this year at Chicago’s F.R.E.E. Chabad House – four years ago as a way to rabbis and congregants, activists and neighbors, pool their collective minds together in a show of Jewish unity.
The lawyer and former improvisational actor said that he’s continually struck by the breadth of knowledge, not always Judaic, possessed by his peers. A trivia competition, he reasoned, is a fun way to get everyone thinking about Jewish topics.
“There are a lot of people involved with Chabad [who] may have a Ph.D. in physics, but they cannot read Hebrew, and they know less about Chumash than a seven-year-old in cheder ,” said the bankruptcy law attorney , using the Hebrew terms for the Torah and a Jewish primary school, respectively.
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Go Yossi! Nice job