This week in power: Outrage in Ukraine and The Onion article

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

Beating fallout
Week after police some police detectives in Ukraine to extort a Jewish businessman — “One of them told me he’d do to me what Hitler did and beat me” — and they then beat him and urinated him, soem in the region are growing fearful. “Anti-Semitic assaults are rare in Ukraine,” ” target=”_blank”>wrote Sharona Schwartz at The Blaze, after first reports of the incident earlier this month. An investigation has been launched, though so far the police have denied any beatings occurred. How this will play out is anyone's guess, but it's shaken the European Jewish community.

Did The Onion go too far?
Some say that the popular satirical newspaper “” target=”_blank”>wrote Lauren Schwartzberg at Jewcy. Some say that this particular joke falls within bounds. “The Onion’s missteps tend to come not when it’s overly offensive but when its offensiveness doesn’t serve any redeeming social value. By cleverly casting the racist name of the Washington team in a new light, it did provide a great service to its readers, who hopefully include Daniel Snyder,” The New Republic's Marc Tracy