This week in power: New Hampshire, Santorum, Holocaust analogies, Credit cards

A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:

Romney’s win
Mitt Romney ” title=”http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/national/jewish_republicans_cheered_romney_romp” target=”_blank”>said someone quoted in The Jewish Week. “Of the remaining Republican field, he is the one Jews feel most comfortable with – he’s kind of heimish.” But if we’re just going based on the campaign and the debates, ” title=”http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/06/intramural-war-of-words-raises-question-of-who-loves-israel-more.html” target=”_blank”>Israel’s best intentions in mind.

Santorum’s “Jesus guy” comments
Late last week, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum told a radio show host that we could always use a “” title=”http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/west-of-eden/closer-ties-between-conservative-evangelicals-and-catholics-may-distance-u-s-jews-1.406486″ target=”_blank”>said Chemi Shalev at Haaretz. Let’s keep the religious attacks out of the campaign, shall we? ” title=”http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/01/09/Israeli-government-outlaws-Nazi-images/UPI-92961326125192/?spt=hs&or=tn” target=”_blank”>according to reports. Violators face big fines or possible jailtime. The law follows recent unrest over ultra-Orthodox people’s use of Nazi imagery in protests over immodesty. “As Jews, we have found ourselves needing to constantly raise our voices against this kind of trivialization in an effort not only to remind others of the pain and offensiveness of these remarks, but also to protect the memory of the Holocaust, so that we do not wake up one day to a world that no longer remembers the lessons of that period—or, worse, is indifferent to them,” ” title=”http://www.forward.com/articles/149326/” target=”_blank”>running for Knesset and might be forming his own party. “The trouble is that politics is not about ratings. One must ask what Lapid brings to politics that gives him the skills to make decisions about the country’s fate. He has no political or administrative experience and has never been immersed in the turmoil that is Israeli politics, whose pressures, from within and without, are some of the greatest in the world,” ” title=”http://www.jewishjournal.com/rosnersdomain/item/israels_politics_less_ideology_more_pragmatic_centrism_20120110/” target=”_blank”>said Shmuel Rosner at the Jewish Journal.

Israel vs. hacker
A Saudi teenage hacker posted Israeli credit card numbers online, prompting the Israeli government to ” title=”http://gawker.com/5874383/israel-basically-threatens-to-assassinate-teen-hacker-who-leaked-israelis-credit-cards” target=”_blank”>said Adrian Chen at Gawker. “Yeah, they sound pretty pissed,”