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This week in power: WoW scuffling, IRS scandal, Newseum, Shavuot message

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May 16, 2013

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

Kotel fight
Last Friday, the Kotel was a spot for outrage and bickering as the Women of the Wall again arrived to pray on the date of the new month. Only this time they encountered much more resistance than ever before, as “religious teenage girls turned up in large numbers to protest the group’s insistence on praying at the wall in religious garb traditionally worn by men,” ” target=”_blank”>said a Jerusalem Post editorial. “I have to ask. With all the good intention of Israel’s rabbinic leaders, how could they not see that this was going to happen? It isn’t as though protests in the past never had things like this happen. The fact is that this almost always happens,” ” target=”_blank”>said Commentary's John Podhoretz. The scandal hit the Jewish world when The Jewish Press wondered whether it had hit Jewish organizations. But not everyone bought it. “There are some red flags in The Jewish Press story, ” target=”_blank”>descended from Sephardic Jewish ancestors. Maduro took over for Hugo Chávez, who had been critical of Israel during his reign and didn't exactly warm up to the Jwish Community there. “Chavez also opened the doors of Latin America to some of the world’s worst human rights offenders. In addition to the Iranians and their terrorist proxies, these included Sudan’s Omar Al-Bashir, Qaddafi, Mugabe, Saddam Hussein, and the Assad family,” Sammy Eppel, a leader of the Venezuelan Jews, “>reconsidering” its decision to honor a slain cameramen employed by a Hamas affiliate. The Newseum wanted to highlght Mahmoud al-Kumi and Hussam Salama, cameramen killed in November by an Israeli strike. They worked for Al Aqsa TV, an arm of Hamas “Serious questions have been raised as to whether two of the individuals included on our initial list of journalists who died covering the news this past year were truly journalists or whether they were engaged in terrorist activities,” the Newseum said. As of early this week, it had merely ” target=”_blank”>wrote Mendel Horowitz in The Jewish Daily Forward. And in each generation, we must recommit ourselves to the text, and to the creator,

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