This week in power: Budapest conference, History program

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

Conference controversy
A high-level member of the Hungarian Jewish community ” target=”_blank”>according to reports. The Mazsihisz Federation recently boycotted a government depiction of Hungary as an innocent victim on Nazism ahead of the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust. More then 200 rabbis on Monday commemorated the 70th anniversary of the exterminaytion of Hungarian Jewry by the Nazis, during a memorial in Budapest.

PBS documentary
A five-part documentary called “The Story of the Jews” has aired and will continue weekly through the end of April is “is overstuffed with information and perspective. Yet it is occasionally a tough slog, especially in the first two episodes, before Schama settles into a better-organized and more chronological approach to telling one of the most complex stories in human existence,” ” target=”_blank”>wrote Newsday's Verne Gay.