This week in power: Carter, Sharansky proposal, Yom Hashoah, Antisemitism study

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

Carter protest
Ahead of Wednesday's Cardozo School of Law's Journal of Conflict Resolution event honoring President Jimmy Carter, some students and alumni at Yeshiva University protested Carter's selection as International Advocate for Peace award, ” target=”_blank”>wrote MJ Rosenberg at Alternet. Still, some felt that the school could have made a better selection. “Yeshiva University is supposed to set the standard. The shuld be the architects of Jewish pride. You want to honor someone at Yeshiva University, how about a real Zionist like John Bolton or Jose Aznar? Or even Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld,” ” target=”_blank”>egalitarian prayer service available. The implementation of non-Orthodox practice would be the first of its kind at the holy site. This goes a long to make it “become a symbol of compromise and coexistence, instead of a source of hostility,” ” target=”_blank”>said a Jewish Week editorial.

Yom Hashoah celebrated
The annual day of remembrance of the lives lost generations ago during the Holocaust came on Sunday, and it left some people reflective. “With countries like Lithuania and Latvia, who are among the main culprits in this regard, poised to take over the presidency of the European Union in the coming year, it is high time that Israel minimize the gap between Holocaust rhetoric and practical action on Shoah-related issues, and begin to take the threat of Holocaust distortion seriously,” ” target=”_blank”>reminds that people still suffer today, even if it's not at the same level as during WWII: “Life in occupied Palestine includes economic strangulation, poverty, unemployment, collective punishment, loss of fundamental freedoms, targeted assassinations, punitive taxes, stolen land and resources, Gazans suffocating under siege, separation walls, electric fences and border closings, curfews, roadblocks and checkpoints, bulldozed homes and crops, as well as arbitrary arrests, imprisonment, torture, and other ill-treatment.”

Internet attack
On Yom Hashoah this year, a group of hackers at Anonymous attacked some Israeli government websites, but officials said the damage caused was minimal. “Anonymous could just as easily have attacked the day before Holocaust Memorial Day or the day after. The insults and the cyberbravado would have been the same. It just would have been a little bit more human,” ” target=”_blank”>added Gary Willig at Times of Israel.

Antisemitism rising
There was a “considerable escalation in anti-Semitic manifestations, particularly violent acts against Jews,”