- One in how many Nobel Prize winners are Jews?
- The HUC-JIR School of Sacred Music (which trains Reform cantors) was established ____ years ago.
- Age of Rabbi Akiba, the famous first- and second-century sage in Palestine, when, according to legend, he began his Jewish studies.
- Rosh Hashanah 1998 will usher in what year in the Jewish calendar?
- Number of states from which contributions flowed to B'nai Israel Synagogue in Grand Forks, ND after the devastating flood.
- Number of countries participating in the UN Framework Convention on Global Climate Change in Kyoto, Japan, December 4, 1997, during which Rabbi Warren Stone of Temple Emanu-El in Kensington, MD sounded a shofar, "a powerful Jewish symbol of our need to awaken ourselves to the moral imperatives of our times."
- Number of adult b'nai mitzvah students who graduated last June at Temple Kol Ami in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Number of years Jonathan Pollard has been in prison.
- Approximate percentage of time Reform cantors spend on non-musical activities.
- Number of years Jews have carried the Torah (since Moses brought it down from Mount Sinai).
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