This week in power: Wasserman Schultz comments and ‘No Jews’ ad

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

Wasserman Schultz walks back
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz denounced Jewish “intermarriage” at a January event in Florida, according to audio released on the Shark Tank blog. “We have the problem of assimilation. We have the problem of intermarriage,” Wasserman-Schultz said. “As dumb as Chris Christie’s vaccinations comments were, the head of the DNC criticizing intermarriage of any kind in the Year of Our Lord 2015 is a bombshell,” ” target=”_blank”>added Noah Rothman at Hot Air. After the controversy erupted, Wasserman Schultz clarified her comments, putting out a statement saying, “I do not oppose intermarriage; in fact, members of my family, including my husband, are a product of it.”

Sign in the window
A Paris graphic design company put on its list of requirements for a new position that candidates be, “if possible, not Jewish,” ” target=”_blank”>statement on its website saying that it “distances itself totally from all racist or anti-Semitic acts or statements.”

Still, the incident made a mark on Jewish people in the region. “The incident is another sign that antisemitism retains a worrying hold over large sections of the French population at a time of heightened security around Jewish institutions, following last month’s terror outrages in Paris that included an attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris,”