This week in power: France fallout, German mayor, Israeli models, Park Slope co-op

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

France looks ahead
France is still reeling from last week’s shooting attack that took the lives of three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse, and now attention is going toward how the attack might impact the upcoming election. “It enabled Sarkozy to show his capacity to manage crises and put the themes of security and immigration back in the center of the political debate,” ” title=”http://www.jewishjournal.com/world/article/after_toulouse_attack_french_jews_are_reconsidering_sarkozy_20120327/” target=”_blank”>reported the Jewish Journal. It’s too early to tell, though, ” title=”http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/germany-elects-first-jewish-mayor-of-frankfurt-since-holocaust-1.420840″ target=”_blank”>he said. Another Jew, Ludwig Landmann, ” title=”http://hipsterjew.com/2012/03/germany-city-elects-jewish-mayor-someone-makes-a-nazi-joke/” target=”_blank”>asked Hipster Jew.

Furor over outposts
Israel’s supreme court dismissed Prime Minister Netanyahu’s “” title=”http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/95269/migron-lawyer-its-our-brown-v-board/” target=”_blank”>Michael Sfard told Tablet. The New York Times wondered ” title=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/israel-bans-underweight-models/2012/03/21/gIQAOXLmRS_blog.html” target=”_blank”>will be banned, and they must provide documentation of a BMI of at least 18.5 to gain admission to the industry. “This is a big step in the right direction for advertisements that are more ‘real’ and other countries should start listening to their citizens and following Israel’s lead in banning too-thin models and preventing digitally altered images from attempting to portray to young people that these unrealistic body types represent the world population,” ” title=”http://jezebel.com/5894826/underweight-models-banned-in-israeli-advertisements” target=”_blank”>said Jazebel writer Dodai Stewart.

Park Slope vote
Late Tuesday night, the Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn, New York, voted against a motion that would have boycotted against products made in Israel, ” title=”http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/hummus-boycott-2012-4/” target=”_blank”>asked Matthew Shaer in New York magazine. And it was also the subject of a Daily Show piece on Tuesday night, leading up to the vote.