REFORM JUDAISM


   PYRAMID PUZZLE   


(All answers can be found in the Summer 1998 issue.)
  1. One in how many Nobel Prize winners are Jews?
  2. The HUC-JIR School of Sacred Music (which trains Reform cantors) was established ____ years ago.
  3. Age of Rabbi Akiba, the famous first- and second-century sage in Palestine, when, according to legend, he began his Jewish studies.
  4. Rosh Hashanah 1998 will usher in what year in the Jewish calendar?
  5. Number of states from which contributions flowed to B'nai Israel Synagogue in Grand Forks, ND after the devastating flood.
  6. 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."
  7. Number of adult b'nai mitzvah students who graduated last June at Temple Kol Ami in Phoenix, Arizona.
  8. Number of years Jonathan Pollard has been in prison.
  9. Approximate percentage of time Reform cantors spend on non-musical activities.
  10. Number of years Jews have carried the Torah (since Moses brought it down from Mount Sinai).
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