This week in power: Egypt, Kibbutz, Jewish vote, Billboard

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

Egypt’s uprising
More fighting between police and protesters in Egypt has some people feeling uneasy. “Egypt’s 1979 peace treaty with Israel has always been hated by the masses. This is a country where loathing of Jews, and venomous resentment of the Jewish state, are common among all classes,” ” title=”http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial_opinion/editorial/tahrir_square_again”>said a Jewish Week editorial. “Israel has good reason to worry in the short term while hoping that, down the road, Arab citizens will choose human rights over rigid ideologies.” Reuven Firestone in the Jewish Journal ” title=”http://www.thejc.com/news/israel-news/58652/israeli-women-strip-egyptian-solidarity”>unique ways…

Was Kibbutz Meirav seized?
According to an ” title=”http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149927#.TsxmEb-_BD0″>opponents said.  “Is it any wonder, with so many journalists more concerned about being the first to expose dirt than about doing their job, that the public is increasingly distrustful of what they read in the mainstream press?” ” title=”http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/83909/what%E2%80%99s-a-republican-jew-to-do/”>said Matt Brooks in a Tablet interview. But how could this all play out for Republicans, who will ” title=”http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial_opinion/gary_rosenblatt/romney_or_not_we_can_learn_mormons”>said Gary Rosenblatt in The Jewish Week. It’ll just take embracing Mormonism.

Identity theft of Holocaust survivors
A woman who worked for a Jewish community organization in Florida was arrested for selling a Holocaust survivors’ ” title=”http://www.vosizneias.com/95406/2011/11/22/new-york-adl-says-billboards-for-cheap-vodka-reinforce-anti-semitic-stereotypes”>billboard alongside New York’s West Side Highway that promised “Christmas Quality, Hanukkah Pricing,” drawing criticism from Jewish groups and prompting the company to promise to remove the ad. The Wódka vodka ad featured the image of two dogs, one wearing a Santa hat, the other wearing a yarmulke. “Booze with a splash of anti-Semitism is what Wodka Vodka is serving up this holiday season,” ” title=”http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/46734″>said Don Surber in the Daily Mail. Other agreed that it was an expensive