RJMag Puzzle Answers

(All answers can be found in the Spring 1997 issue.)

More than 100,000 (page 24).
Some 400 a year (page 24).
The 100th anniversary. Theodor Herzl wrote in his diary in August 1897 that he had just founded the Jewish state (page 31).
8,000 miles (page 40).
4,500 Reform Jews from all over the world (page 55).
150,000 young people (page 57).
525,000 Jews in Germany. Roughly a third fled the country before Kristallnacht (November 9-10, 1938) and another third by the outbreak of World War II (September 1939), but nearly 165,000 remained (page 59).
Turkey's 22,000 Jews constitute only a minute fraction of the nation's 65 million population (page 78).
Federal spending will be reduced by $55 billion. In addition, the welfare reform act allows states to cut another $40 billion (page 84).
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima will be 8 years old on April 25, 1997. In November 1995 Beijing placed him under house arrest, making him the world's youngest political prisoner (page 104).