J.4. Famous Jewish Personalities

J.4. Famous Jewish Personalities

As the group members walk into a room, the leader attaches an index card to each one’s back or forehead with tape, bearing the name of a Jewish personality.
Participants walk around the room asking each other yes or no questions about the person whom they represent.
Afterwards, the group sits in a circle and the leader asks each person to identify his/her character and tell what he or she has learned about him/her.

Suggestions for characters:
Abraham, Bella Abzug, Shalom Aleichem, Woody Allen, Shulamit Aloni,
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Menachem Begin, David Ben Gurion, Leonard Bernstein, Rachel (Bluwstein) the poetess, Mel Brooks,
Bob Dylan, Albert Einstein,
Anne Frank, Sigmund Freud,
Emma Goldman, A.D. Gordon,
Theodore Herzl, Emma Lazarus,
Karl Marx, Golda Meir, Bette Midler, Chaim Potok,
Mark Spitz, Henrietta Szold,
Chaim Weizmann, Elie Wiesel, etc.