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This week in power: Election aftermath, IDF tweets, Rocket attacks, Jewish jocks

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November 15, 2012

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

Obama's vote
How's the President wind up doing on Jewish support? Not bad. In 2008, he won 78 percent of all Jewish voters, with this year ” target=”_blank”>said Jeremy Ben Ami in The New York Times. And there's no better time for the President to reassure Jews that this is the start of a beautiful friendship, ” target=”_blank”>according to reports. But what really got people fired up was the way the IDF announced the news — via Twitter. And the tweets didn't seem to stop all day long. “The social media and real-life assaults are ongoing and more than a bit startling, combining the strong declarations of war with the immediacy and promotional aspects of the Internet, using lingo such as 'in case you missed it' and memelike photos designed for maximum virality,” ” target=”_blank”>added Matt Buchanan at Buzzfeed.

Days of rockets
Israeli's attack this week followed several days of rocket attacks fired in the region. “Israel is literally surrounded by enemies, armed and funded by Iran, and sworn to its destruction,” ” target=”_blank”>asked Gadi Adelman in The Jerusalem Post. There's still hope to quell the Syrian uprising, ” target=”_blank”>networking than to settle unresolved issues within the Jewish community. Elie Wiesel and Natan Sharansky were the keynote speakers at the event, and some argued that the assembly would be better off with some younger guests. “Because we’ve grown up in the age of Uzi’s and M16’s, battles like Wiesel’s and Sharansky’s—over the bare fact of Jewish survival—don’t resonate for us the way they do for our parents,” ” target=”_blank”>wrote editor Marc Tracy about his new book. “With so much variance in substance and style, it's hard to pick a single standout,” ” target=”_blank”>said Bloomberg's David M. Shribman.

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