RJMag Puzzle Answers

(All answers can be found in the Winter 1999 issue.)

1960.
11 million Jews in the world, most of them in Eastern Europe.
About 1 million, even after twenty years of large-scale immigration.
115 affiliated temples by 1903, thirty years after the founding of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations
There were 11,000 contributing members.
$50,000 -- almost all of it spent on the Reform Movement's rabbinic seminary, Hebrew Union College.
33. The dramatic vote was 33-13.
In the Fall of 1951.
In 1972, then HUC-JIR President Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk ordained Sally Priesand as the first woman rabbi in the U.S.
About 13 million, about a fifth of a percent of the world's mushrooming population. The 4.7 million Israelis trail the estimated 6 million Jews living in North America, but, says author Michael Meyer, "we can expect to see a Jewish people demographically dominated by Israel, as American Jewry's population curve remains flat and will most likely decline."