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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: How 3rd grader Daniel Marquez became a world JewQ champion—beating thousands of Hebrew school students
Description: The youngest child traditionally asks the Four Questions at Passover. But Daniel Marquez, 8, of Mississauga, Ont., could probably have answered all the questions by himself: the Grade 3 student won the 2024 JewQ competition, an annual tournament of Jewish knowledge hosted by Chabad.
Marquez hoisted his trophy onstage during a live game show on April 7–held an hour away from the Lubavitch movement’s headquarters in Brooklyn. To reach that point, he had to beat around 4,000 Chabad Sunday school kids from 25 countries during local, regional and national playoffs.
It’s an especially remarkable achievement for Daniel because this is his first year o...