Tag: Chidon HaTanach

It was a big biblical year for Americans. Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School sophomore Jacob Colchamiro of Short Hills, N.J., placed second in the world at the International Chidon HaTanach (Bible Quiz), which took place...

In 1958, a one-time event was scheduled in Israel with the support of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. It was a heavily text-based, extraordinarily difficult “Chidon HaTanach,” or Bible Quiz, and was created as...

The room is hot and overcrowded, but you can hear a pin drop as the national winners are announced. It’s been a year filled with getting up early, sometimes staying hours late after school,...