This week in power: Kerry language request and NYPost headline

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

'Jewish State' possibilities
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged world leaders to talk the Palestinian leadership into recognizing Israel as a Jewish State, ” target=”_blank”>wrote Bloomberg's editors. “And they can still find a way to separate into two states, the character of which will be defined not in a treaty but by their citizens and their laws.”

Others played up the significance of the term. “The very fact that Abbas refuses to agree to this demand proves the point Netanyahu was surely trying to make in issuing it: That Palestinian leaders continue to entertain the fantasy that the Jewish state can be made, somehow, to disappear,” ” target=”_blank”>said Winslow Myers at the Huntington News.

A headline too far
People around the world were criticizing The New York Post for a controversial headline titled, “Who didn't want him dead?” about the Brooklyn real estate businessman who was found murdered over alleged debts he owed. “The Post‘s headline about Menachem Stark is outrageous, and I have no doubt that it would have been painful to see if Stark was someone you knew and cared about,” ” target=”_blank”>countered the Jewish Week's editors. “But the headline focuses indignation against the victim rather than against the killers.”

It's a matter of your taste,