- 1961. (page 24)
- 16,000 Ethiopian Jews. (page 28)
- At the end of the Second World War, some 15,000 German Jews out of 500,000 remained. (page 31)
- Approximately 60,000, out of a German population of 80 million. (page 31)
- The absorption of 30,000 Russian Jews has caused Germany's Jewish population to double in size. (page 31)
- 67%, or about two-thirds of German Jews. The largely Eastern European postwar German Jews that replaced them had no knowledge of liberal Judaism. Only in the past decade have things begun to change as a new generation of Jewish adults are beginning to create a modern way of practicing their Jewish heritage. (page 35)
- The 64th UAHC General Assembly. (page 51)
- Approximately 25%, as reported in Gabrielle Glaser's new book, Strangers to the Tribe: Portraits of Interfaith Marriage. Following a journey of three years and interviews with dozens of intermarried couples, Glaser concludes, despite the sobering surveys, that a significant number of Jews who marry outside their faith are making serious efforts to pass on the religion and culture of their forefathers. (pages 56-57)
- 24,000 pounds. The project has been growing exponentially since it started in 1993. Volunteers gleaned 5,700 pounds of citrus in 1995 and 16,000 pounds the following year. (page 74)
- 500 years. A new chapter began in the history of 30-year-old Temple Beth Shalom when on January 31, 1997 the Reform community in San Juan, Puerto Rico engaged its first full-time spiritual leader, Rabbi Susan Friedman. (page 74)
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