This week in power: Bibi speech and Susan Rice ad

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

Netanyahu delivers
Israelu Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke before the U.S. Congress on Tuesday about Iran and Israel's safety. It came after weeks of debate over whether Netanyahu should visit and what his motives were. “He insisted both that Iran is implacably bent on endless aggression and that it could somehow be persuaded to accept less favorable terms than those it is currently balking at. For all the clarity and starkness of Netanyahu’s ringing words, the thought under-girding it was sentimental mush,” ” target=”_blank”>concluded Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic.

“I still don’t know if I will support this Iran deal, but I also have a problem with my own Congress howling in support of a flawed foreign leader trying to scuttle the negotiations by my own government before they’re done. Rubs me the wrong way,” ” target=”_blank”>wrote The Wall Street Journal's editors. “His speech raised serious doubts about an accord that has been negotiated in secret and which Mr. Obama wants Americans to accept without a vote in Congress. Now maybe we can have a debate worthy of the high nuclear stakes.”

Boteach backs down
Ahead of the AIPAC conference in Washington, D.C., Rabbi Shmuley Boteach organized an attack ad in The New York Times ” target=”_blank”>said Daniel R. DePetris at The Huffington Post. But this is all a distraction,