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Jewish Politics September 2012 Reader’s Guide: Jewish Politics Election season always brings with it a sudden, brief national J.J. Goldberg fascination with Jewish politics and the Jewish vote. What is it, Senior Columnist, and how does it work? The The Jewish Daily Forward answer is a bit like Hillel's famous explanation of the Torah on one foot: It can be captured in a phrase, but invites a lifetime of study. The short version is, as the late scholar Milton Himmelfarb once said, that Jews earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans. The longer version is the subject of this month's Berman Jewish Policy Archive guide, and the selection of readings offered here only hints at the topic's complexity. It includes not just the vagaries Jewish opinion and voting patterns but the workings of Jewish lobbying, the role of Jews in American public leadership, the triangular relationship between Israel, America and American Jews, the power structures of Jewish communal life, ties and tensions between Jews and other faith and ethnic communities and, perhaps most important—because it infuses all the rest with meaning and purpose—the nature of Jewish social values. Reader’s Guide: Jewish Politics 2 2012 Mark S. Mellman, Aaron Strauss, Kenneth D. Wald An extensive analysis of exit poll data. More information... Reader’s Guide: Jewish Politics 3 2012 Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring 2012 American Jews’ Political Values Survey Steven M. Cohen, Samuel Abrams American Jews today are pointedly more liberal than the overall population, especially on economic issues traditionally considered social justice concerns. Significantly, neither attachment to Israel nor confidence in Israelis vs. Palestinians as peace seeking strongly factor into Jews’ presidential vote decision. More information... Reader’s Guide: Jewish Politics 4 2012 Chosen for What? Jewish Values in 2012 Robert P. Jones, Daniel Cox This survey of 1,004 American Jews is the most comprehensive, representative national study of its kind conducted by a non-Jewish research organization. The survey takes a broad look at how Jewish values, experiences and identity are shaping political beliefs and behavior and influencing social action in the Jewish community and beyond. The survey finds that more than eight-in-ten American Jews say that pursuing justice and caring for the widow and the orphan are some- what or very important values that inform their political beliefs and activities. A majority say that seeing every person as made in the image of God is an important influence on their political beliefs and activities. Strong majorities of American Jews also cite the experience of the Holocaust, having opportunities for economic success in America, and the immigrant experience as important in shaping their political beliefs and activities. The survey also finds President Barack Obama with the same level of support (62%) among American Jewish voters as during a comparable point in the 2008 race. More information... Reader’s Guide: Jewish Politics 5 2012 2012 AJC Survey of American Jewish Opinion AJC's annual survey shows that President Obama would win a majority of the Jewish vote in a contest against Gov. Mitt Romney. Obama would gain 61 percent and Romney 28 percent, with 11 percent undecided. Obama won 78 percent of the Jewish vote in 2008. More information... Reader’s Guide: Jewish Politics 6 2012 The Jewish Vote Ira M. Sheskin This publication is the slide presentation accompanying Prof. Ira M. Sheskin's presentation in June 2012 to the American Jewish Press Association's annual conference. More information... Reader’s Guide: Jewish Politics 7 Israel as a Campaign Issue Watch What You Wish For, GOP J.J. Goldberg. Forward, January 2012 Conservatives Reject Call To Leave Israel Out of Campaign J.J. Goldberg. Forward, November 2011 Israel Off Their Minds: The Diminished Place of Israel in the Political Thinking of Young Jews Steven M. Cohen, Sam Abrams. BJPA, 2008 Study: Young US Jews Don't See Israel as Campaign Issue Haviv Rettig. Palestine Post, October 2008 The Israel Swing Factor: How the American Jewish Vote Influences U.S. Elections Jeffrey S. Helmreich. JCPA, January 2001 Perceptions of Israel and American Jews: Findings of the May 1990 Roper Poll David Singer, Renae Cohen. AJC, 1990 What American Jews Believe: An Eye-Opening Report on a Recent Survey of Attitudes Toward Israel Steven M. Cohen. Moment Magazine, July 1982 Reader’s Guide: Jewish Politics 8 Jewish Politics & Policy All the News on Jews' Views: Comparing 3 Polls J.J. Goldberg. Forward, June 2012 Super PAC's Party Like It's 1896 J.J. Goldberg. Forward, May 2012 Jews Are Not as Liberal as It Seems J.J. Goldberg. Forward, April 2012 Sh’ma January 2012: The Jewish Electorate (Complete Issue) The Jewish Vote in Presidential Elections Jonathan D. Sarna. Sh’ma, January 2012 Jewish Issues, Jewish Vote Mik Moore. Sh’ma, January 2012 One Voice or Many? An Exchange of Letters Steven Windmueller, Howard I. Friedman. Sh’ma, January 2012 Trends Among Young Jewish Voters Aaron Strauss. Sh’ma, January 2012 Reader’s Guide: Jewish Politics 9 Jewish Politics & Policy Jewish Values, Jewish Interests: Negotiating the Tension Ruth Wisse, Joy Levitt, Steven M. Cohen. BJPA, JCSA, December 2011 Religion and the Birth of Jewish Radical Politics Adam Sutcliffe. AJS Perspectives, Fall 2011 A Snapshot of the American Jewish Electorate: 2011 Political Survey Steven Windmueller, May 2011 Jewish Public Policy in the 21st Century Martin J. Raffel, Steve Gutow. Journal of Jewish Communal Service, Winter 2010 Has Obama Lost the Jews? Don't Ask the Polls J.J. Goldberg. Forward, October 2011 Debt Ceiling: How Jewish Lawmakers Voted J.J. Goldberg. Forward, August 2011 Between Bernie and Joe: The Senate Democrats' Rock and Hard Place J.J. Goldberg. Forward, January 2010 The Jewish Federations of North America: 2010 Public Policy Priorities JFNA, January 2010 Reader’s Guide: Jewish Politics 10 Jewish Politics & Policy What is a Jewish Issue? David M. Pollock. JCRC of New York, 2009 Doing God's Work in the Public Square Peter Knobel. Sh’ma, November 2007 Jewish Values in the American Public Square Nathan J. Diament. Sh’ma, October 2004 Influencing America: Jewish Political Influence David Teutsch. Sh’ma, October 2004 Reason and Politics: Maimonides, Television and the Political Imagination Tsvi Blanchard. CLAL, October 2002 A Jewish Contribution to American Politics Michael Gottsegen. CLAL, 2001 Book Review: The Jewish Political Tradition David Biale. Sh’ma, January 2001 The Presidents and the Jews Leonard Dinnerstein. URJ, 2000 Reader’s Guide: Jewish Politics 11 Jewish Politics & Policy The Politics of Judaism - A Review of The Jewish Political Tradition Seth Goldstein. The Reconstructionist, Fall 2000 No Right, no Left Joan Bronk. Sh’ma, September 19997 When Policy Hurts Bradley S. Arston. Sh’ma, September 19997 Kinship and Consent: The Jewish Political Tradition and Its Contemporary Uses Daniel J. Elazar. JCPA, 1997 Jewish Political Conscience Harold M. Schulweis. Sh’ma, November 1995 When Conscience is Not Enough Michael Gottsegen. Sh’ma, November 1995 A Jewish Contract with America Jack Wertheimer. AJC, 1995 Jewish Political Activism: Promoting Ethnic Identity and Group Survival Lawrence Sternberg. Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 1992 Reader’s Guide: Jewish Politics 12 Jewish Politics & Policy Jewish Public Policy: Its Unexamined Premises Murray Friedman. Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 1991 The Relationship Between the Jewish Political Tradition and Jewish Civil Religion in the United States Deborah Dash Moore. Jewish Political Studies Review, Spring 1990 Comparative Politics and the Jewish Political Experience Zvi Gitelman. Jewish Political Studies Review, Fall 1989 The Language of Jewish Political Discourse Gordon M. Freeman. Jewish Political Studies Review, Spring 1989 The Transformation of American Jewish Politics Peter Y. Medding. AJC, 1989 Conservatives, Fundamentalists, Liberals Aryeh Spero. Sh’ma, February 1987 Yes and no to Jewish Politics Arnold Jacob Wolf. Sh’ma, February 1987 Segmented Ethnicity and the New Jewish Politics Peter Y. Medding. Studies in Contemporary Jewry, 1987 Reader’s Guide: Jewish Politics 13 Jewish Politics & Policy Jews are Searching for a Political Home Hyman Bookbinder. Sh’ma, October 1984 Right is Right, but Judaism First Edward Alexander. Sh’ma, April 1981 The Political Process David Cohen. Task Forces on the 80s, AJC, Fall 1981 The Politicization of American Jewry Charles S. Liebman. JCPA, November 1978 Radical Jewish Youth and this America Steven M. Cohen. Sh’ma, April 1973 Reader’s Guide: Jewish Politics 14 Religion & Politics Jewish Secularism and the Campaigns against Political Catholicism and Islam Ari Joskowicz. AJS Perspectives, Spring 2011 Religion and Politics Today: Tearing Down Walls, Building Bridges Michael Gottsegen. CLAL, November 2002 Religion and Democracy Charles S. Liebman, 1999 Religion and Politics: Three Perspectives A. James Rudin, Martin S. Kaplan, Raphael J. Sonenshein. AJC, January 1997 The Separation of Platform and Bimah Harold M. Schulweis. Sh’ma, November 1984 Why I Am Against Rabbinic Endorsements J. David Bleich. Sh’ma, October 1976 Political Religion is Dangerous Leo Pfeffer. Sh’ma, May 1972 Reader’s Guide: Jewish Politics 15 Liberalism Humility, Freedom, and Transcendence: An Exchange of Letters Ari Weiss, Chisda Magid. Sh’ma, May 2102 Stunning Stability: A Consistent Jewish Vote for 60 Years Kenneth D. Wald . Sh’ma, January 2012 Of Democrats and Democratic Principles Bethamie Horowitz . Forward, May 28, 2004 American Jewish Liberalism: Unravelling the Strands Steven M. Cohen, Charles S. Liebman . Public Opinion Quarterly, Fall 1997 Standing Firm on Liberalism Leonard Fein . Sh’ma, November 1996 Liberalism and the Jews-an Appeal From the Perplexed Michael M. Sharlot. Sh’ma, November 1996 A New Liberalism for the 1990s? Richard T. Foltin. Sh’ma, November 1996 Toward a Theory of Disproportionate American Jewish Liberalism Geoffrey Levey. Studies in Contemporary Jewry, 1995 Reader’s Guide: Jewish Politics 16 Liberalism How Liberalism Won Albert Vorspan.
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