This week in power: Crown Heights, Bibi, Beck rally, Lieberman book

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

Anniversary of Crown Heights riots
The Brooklyn neighborhood infamous for the 1991 riot between blacks and Jews has ” title=”http://www.forward.com/articles/141468/#ixzz1VKT7K4GE”>The Jewish Daily Forward. To mark the anniversary, Rev. Al Sharpton will ” title=”http://www.dawn.com/2011/08/16/israeli-parliament-holds-special-session-on-protests.html”>unrest in pockets of Israel, the Israeli prime minister is under increased pressure from American Jews to get on the same page as President Obama. Obama “seems to have concluded that the ideal segue from the latest Arab crisis is a new attempt to pressure Israel into accepting a quick march to Palestinian statehood,” ” title=”http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/08/16/3089009/op-ed-obama-and-israel-are-not-on-the-same-page”>said Morton Klein at JTA. “Things may get better or worse—more likely the latter—but one thing is clear: Obama and Israel are not of one mind, or anywhere close to being so.” But not everyone has lost hope. ” title=”http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/a-special-place-in-hell/not-jewish-enough-for-glenn-beck-nor-israeli-enough-1.378585″>a week away, and some people are aren’t taking kindly to it. It is “nothing more than a media-driven, money-making, self-serving, end-of-times messianic-lunacy circus show, and that is the very last thing Jerusalem and Israel need at this moment,” ” title=”http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10512#.TkxJ7b9uPLZ”>said an editorial at Israeli National News. “So the question must be posed: What in the world is a media figure doing addressing a legislative body? Has Oprah Winfrey ever addressed a joint session of Congress? How about Rush Limbaugh? Dennis Prager? Michael Savage?  Or even, for the liberally inclined, pre-Congressional Al Franken? Anybody?” Say what you want about Beck, ” title=”http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=233112″>Give it a rest. “The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath” is for non-Jews, too, the senator said. ““This gift, I wanted not only to share with Jews who are not experiencing it, who haven’t accepted it, but also in some measure to appeal to Christians to come back to their observance of their Sabbath on Sundays,” ” title=”http://www.rollcall.com/news/liebermans_sabbath_guide_worth_a_look-208215-1.html?pos=oathh”>said John Bicknell at Roll Call. And it’s a testament to Lieberman’s hard work over the years, ” title=”http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904007304576496022880806338.html”>considered Jewish as long as they stay outside of Israel. Making matters worse, the Chinese government won’t acknowledge that there are any Chinese Jews at all. Between 500 and 1,000 people in the city say they are descendants of Kaifeng Jews. Whether or not these Jews should be accepted is up for debate, but what’s clear is that the Jewish and Chinese heritages and traditions intertwined over time. After all, there’s