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\"[Barack Obama]... cited Kagan's immigrant roots and the values her parents instilled as key to her success and life path... 'Given [Elena Kagan]'s upbringing, it's a choice that probably came naturally,' Obama said, referring to her being raised by a public school teacher and a tenant lawyer who were the children of immigrants and both the first in their families to go to college.\" Abner Mikva, \"who hired Kagan as his clerk when he was an appellate judge in the 1980s and then later when he was legal counsel for the Clinton White House,\" said the following: \"that her closeness to the immigrant experience influenced her approach to the law. 'I think she did identify with people who are friendless and powerless, and that the law is there to protect them, not impose further burdens on them.'\" Sir, - What an interesting idea David J. Balan of Washington has (\"Addressing the threat to Zionism,\" Letters, May 10). He suggests that \"one million or more non-Jewish immigrants\" is an \"obvious and humane solution to the rapid growth of the haredi and Arab populations relative to the secular Jewish one.\"

Sir, - The article titled \"American Jews satisfied with how US, Israel are handling bilateral ties\" (April 11) states that 55 percent of American Jews approve of [Barack Obama]'s handling of Israel. At the same time, it indicates that 90% of American Jews do not want all of the land gained in the 1967 war to be handed over to the Palestinian Authority (34% who want no settlements dismantled plus 56% want some, but not all, settlements dismantled). Sir; - The US State Department spokesman Phillip J. Crowley was finally moved to condemn the renaming of a Ramallah street in honor of arch-terrorist Yehiyeh Ayash by the PA (\"US condemns PA for naming Ramallah street after 'The Engineer,\" April 9). The spokesman also said the US would \"hold Palestinian leaders accountable for incitement.\" There is an ennobling way today to accept the concept of God and the Shoah. It relates to a clear understanding of \"chosen people\" versus \"master race\" - one the exact antithesis of the other. A midrash says that anti-Semitism was born at Sinai. The giving of the 10 Commandments, as thesis, set out the basis for their absolute rejection, reaching its most extreme form in the antithesis of Nazi racist \"theology.\"E With one finger, God bequeathed a force in the universe, creating all men in His image, with an absolute moral law for all humanity that intones: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not steal. And with the other finger, God again and again tests Jews and all those who invoke His name, individually and collectively, by allowing an evil that declares morality to be relativistic - an idolatry that supposedly serves mankind in some way. This evil has taken different forms; in the time of the Holocaust, it was in the drapings of Nazism, choosing to serve an Aryan race as master and \"purifier\" of humanity.

Sir, - In Douglas Bloomfield's analysis of \"Winners and losers for 2009\" (December 31), he faults the Nobel Prize Committee for giving the Nobel peace Prize to Barack Obama. However, he does not mention that Israel was the big loser this past year. By caving in to American pressure, Israel lost its freedom of action. It is hard to think of any other country in the world that would allow its population to undergo a settlement freeze on behalf of another government. Sir, - Regarding the article \"Dubious arrest leads to alleged prison rape nightmare for American teenage immigrant\" (December 22) and Gil Troy's moving response (The Galilee 'rape nightmare' tests us all,\" December 29), we at Hadar (Israel Council for Civic Action) would like to lend our public support to the family from Miami that has been devastated by these terrible events and voice our deep concern over the lack of law and order that allegedly allowed this incident to occur. Sir, - In his opinion piece \"Birthright needs to transform on a larger scale\" (December 30), Haviv Rettig Gur writes regarding Taglit- Birthright Israel that \"these connections are wasted if they are not directed at new Jewish experiences back home,\" and makes the claim that a majority of alumni are not reached by current programming.