The Jerusalem Post Crossword Puzzle By David Benkof Special to HAKOL Editor’s Note: This month we bring you something new! Puzzle-writer David Benkof says this is the first puzzle he’s written in which “every single clue is Jewish.” He adds, “Judaic clues range from Israeli cities to Hollywod actors to Yiddish words
to notable Jewish women. Designed for the knowledgeable but not necessarily bilingual Jew, no more than a very few clues per puzzle expect the solver to simply translate between Hebrew and English.” Note that some answers are actually two words written as one, without a space between them. For the answers to the crossword puzzle, visit the Federation website at www.jewishlehighvalley.org.
Coming in the fall of 2014, Shalom Lehigh Valley, a full-color magazine produced by the Jewish Federation, will focus on what's new, noteworthy and right next door in the Jewish Lehigh Valley. In the mean time, see if you recognize this photo. Think you know the answer? Send an e-mail including your full name with the correct location to stephanie@jflv.org for a chance to win a fabulous prize!
FLOURISH. ACROSS 1. Simplest Hebrew verb construction 5. St. with "The Holy Land Experience" Christian theme park 8. Oksana Baiul is an Olympic goldwinning one 14. "Show Boat" playwright Ferber 15. Romanian-Jewish novelist Calugaru 16. African city with an Israeli embassy 17. Three-___ matzah holder 18. Brian Schatz is one for Haw. 19. Observed Yom Kippur 20. Oxford scholar fluent in seven languages 23. Musical genre for Marty Friedman of Megadeth 24. When the Kol Nidre is recited, vis-àvis Yom Kippur 25. Al Capp's Daisy ___ 28. Malamud novel set in Brooklyn 32. Sound at a "bark mitzvah," perhaps 35. Jazz musician Friedman 36. Oy vey! 37. Unit for Rashida Jones's sitcom "The Office" 39. 29th of November and 14th of May are important ones in Israeli history 41. Alma mater for Mayim Bialik and James Franco 42. ___ Hushi (Haifa mayor for 18 years) 43. Bernard Madoff's is 150 years 44. Title for Natan Sharansky (abbr.) 45. Six-time Emmy nominee ("Smash," "Will and Grace") 50. Character Gold on "The Good Wife" played by Alan Cumming 51. Philadelphia Athletics player Limmer 52. Person using one step of a method for preparing kosher meat 56. Publisher of "Israel Matters" by Mitchell Bard 59. Hank who voices Apu on "The Simpsons" 62. "Hija Ke Yo ___" (Ladino song meaning "Daughter I Love") 63. Film historian Gerald who wrote that Woody Allen's career was distinguished by the Jew-WASP binary 64. Allen Ginsberg's astrological sign 65. Alma mater of Kennedy adviser Pierre Salinger 66. Last word of Psalm 23 67. Participating in Birthright 68. ___ Pasuk (trope for the last word of a verse) 69. Like the novel "The Song of Hannah" DOWN 1. It meant little to Alfred Dreyfus 2. Charoset (___ containing fruits, nuts, and wine) 3. "Listen to my cry; lend ___ to my prayer..." (Psalms 17:1) 4. Item for Kinky Friedman
5. Rosh Hashana positive omen 6. Songwriter Lisa whose "Stay (I Missed You)" hit number one 7. Writer Roiphe ("Secrets of the City") 8. 2007 Israel Prize winner Alice 9. Couric and Holmes 10. ___ kodesh (holy ark) 11. Eilat goal 12. "Pray for Jerusalem, to keep her ___ she fall...." (lines from the poem "Weep Jerusalem") 13. Bane of Roy Cohn 21. Hank Greenberg's type of bat 22. Shabbat observers 25. Salute to Israel Parade, e.g. 26. English-speaker in Israel 27. Mechon Hadar Rosh Yeshiva Tucker 29. Beverly Sills got her start on "Major Bowes' ___ Hour" 30. Dachau and Birkenau are oft-visited Holocaust ones 31. Zeta Beta ___ (Jewish fraternity) 32. Yiddish writer Chaim ("The Agunah") 33. Korach, famously 34. "Friday the ___ Slept Late" (Harry
Kemelman mystery) 38. ___ Cheshvan (fall month) 40. Branson, Missouri comedian Yakov 46. Prayer at the end of services 47. Industry introduced by South African Jews 48. Wellness agy. once led by Milton J. Rosenau 49. "Revenge of the Lawn ___" (R.L. Stine "Goosebumps" installment) 53. Yasmin Levy's third album "Mano ___" 54. Delancey-___ (Lower East Side subway stop) 55. Act as the Goldman family did toward O.J. Simpson 56. Award for Amy Gottlieb and Sarah Stern 57. Art Spiegelman's 1992 Pulitzer-winning rodent novel 58. "Mazel Tov!" ("I ___ happy for you!) 59. "Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years ___" by Hannah Trager 60. It's practiced by some Bu Jews 61. Size of a bat mitzvah gift, e.g.
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