This week in power: Final debate, Iran talks, Racist tweets, Jewish Mum

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

Debate summary
“As anyone could have predicted, Israel was mentioned a lot,” ” target=”_blank”>warned Shibley Teihami at Brookings. “All of this adds up to a show that is particularly hard to take seriously for many voters, and which is puzzling to audiences around the world, especially in the Middle East. But most have come to expect that there is in the end little correlation between what is said in the heat of political campaigns, and what presidents in fact do when elected.” Not so, ” target=”_blank”>sanctions and what each candidate proposes to do about Iran came up and drove more questions than revelations. It was particularly relevant after The New York Times reported last weekend that Obama had ” target=”_blank”>stood behind its story despite pushback from the Obama administration.

Rocket attacks
Israel's Negev was under fire on Wednesday after Gazans shot over 80 rockets at them in a 24-hour period, ” target=”_blank”>two deaths. As the violence escalates, people are worrying more. “I'm angry that there is someone out there who does not know me and has never met me, yet still wants to kill me — for no other reason than being Israeli,” ” target=”_blank”>reported Mashable. It was a popular hashtag on the site at the time. This is just the latest move that the social-networking site has made to police its site and to keep it clean from hate groups. Some, like the ADL's Abraham Foxman, are relieved: Twitter was “fast becoming the Internet’s distribution platform of choice for bigots who use it to get their messages of hate out in 140 characters or less,” ” target=”_blank”>sparked outrage over its depictions of Jewish mothers as they prepare for their sons' Bar Mitzvahs. “Whatever its merits as television and flaws as representation, the problem for the programme’s makers might not be the reaction from Jews but the country at-large,”” target=”_blank”>reviews are any indication, American audiences would hate it, too. Not everyone thinks it's worth making a fuss over this show, though. “The danger in these shows lies not in how people view British Jews but how we regard ourselves,”