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Welcoming Immigrants
Thursday, April 22, 2010 by Alexander Yakobson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Alongside the Law of Return, Israel's national interest requires a well-regulated immigration and naturalization process.
“If God Tells You to Go Somewhere, You’d Better Go”
Thursday, April 22, 2010 by Rick Richman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

At Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, Pastor Rick Warren reads from Genesis 12 and Israel's Declaration of Independence.
Pioneer of Hebrew Dance
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 by Roni Dori | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The centenarian Yardena Cohen reflects on a lifetime of faith and art.
Toward a Better Text
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 by Harvey Minkoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Thanks to the Dead Sea Scrolls, some longstanding mysteries of the Hebrew Bible have been resolved.
Cheerleaders in the Holy City
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Pushing for modest dress, an unusual combination of Orthodox and feminist groups scores with a Jerusalem basketball team.
Solving Israel’s Constitutional Dilemma
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 by Michael Wyschogrod | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

How strange is it to imagine reconciling the modern concept of a state with a religious concept of legitimacy more than three millennia old?
Polling American Jews Polling American Jews
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

What does the predominantly liberal Asian-American community think of President Barack Obama's policies toward China, particularly on the issue of Tibet?  Where do America's 2.35 million Muslims stand on Washington's conduct of the war in Afghanistan-Pakistan? It's hard to say. Yet minute shifts in American Jewish public opinion are carefully tracked. Why?  Because, says the Hebrew University political scientist Tamir Sheafer,  although comprising at most three percent of the population, America's Jews—well-educated, relatively affluent, and "over-represented" in medicine, science, law, media, entertainment, and politics—are perceived to be an important, well-organized, and powerful interest group. They are major financial contributors to political...
How Do British Jews Vote?
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 by Geoffrey Alderman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The community has resisted attempts to study its voting patterns, but doing so might prove electorally fruitful.
A Dead-End Policy
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 by Aaron David Miller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A veteran adviser has lost his faith in the rigid dogmas of the American-led "peace process."
Herman Wouk Remembers
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 by Jonathan Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

At ninety-four, the best-selling author has published a compact philosophical autobiography that, among other things, attempts to reconcile religion and science.