Your Daily Spiel is The CJN’s daily roundup of trending stories in the Jewish world.
Happy hump day to you and yours. Here’s some Jewish news:
A win for Israel’s tourism industry this week in that a third Canadian airline will begin flying non-stop to Israel beginning June 18, this one departing from Montreal. Air Transat made the announcement Jan. 9., and while the Montreal-based company hasn’t yet announced fares for the route, Quebec Jews (or others) who like going to Israel have reason to be hopeful, given that the charter airline is known for undercutting the competition.
Evelyn Tauben writes in this week’s CJN about what she sees as the danger of equating being a child or grandchild of Holocaust survivors with being a “second generation survivor.”
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Included in the now infamous dossier BuzzFeed published yesterday is a document that alleges Russian intelligence has been targeting Jewish-American businessmen who have Russian backgrounds for use as operatives in criminal cyber activity, Ha’aretz reports.
O.K., wait, one more Donald Trump-related news item: the president-elect tweeted early this morning asking if we are “living in Nazi Germany.”
