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Wait….are those veggies kosher? If you’ve ever seen a kosher friend at a non-kosher vegetarian restaurant and furrowed your brow at how all that makes sense, you’re not the only one. In fact, many vegetarian Jews who identify as kosher eat at non-kosher spots, as long as they don’t serve meat. Is that technically kosher, though? Not exactly, explains vegetarian rabbi Schachar Orenstein of Montreal, but it all depends on your level of Kashrut.
A Jewish president who isn’t named Bernie. Former World Bank economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has won Peru’s presidency, but his rival refuses to admit defeat (sound familiar?) At 77, Kuczynski will be the country’s oldest president.
So much for an unbiased UN. Ban Ki-moon surprised many after unequivocally condemning Wednesday’s terrorist attack in Tel Aviv – and also the Palestinians who celebrated it – but the rest of the UN was back at harshly accusing Israel Friday, with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein noting his concerns at “the response of the Israeli authorities, which includes measures that may amount to prohibited collective punishment.” Could it be that the Jordanian prince might have a bias against Israel? Could it be the UN isn’t as trustworthy as it makes itself out to be? Nah….
Staying positive despite it all. Wounded IDF vets were in Toronto this week for an event that featured music, dancing, even a wedding proposal. The vets shared their personal stories with the audience, discussed the recent terror attack in Tel Aviv, and thanked Beit Halochem Canada for its support.
When it comes to hate speech and racism, Twitter needs to step up its game. A day after New York Times editor Jonathan Weisman left Twitter for Facebook over anti-Semitism, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Rabbi Abraham Cooper said Twitter needs to “step up and deal with the hate speech” that has taken over the popular social media platform.
I will leave @twitter to the racists, the anti-Semites, the Bernie Bros who attacked women reporters yesterday. Maybe Twitter will rethink
— (((Jon Weisman))) (@jonathanweisman) June 8, 2016
In an interview with CNN, Weisman said Twitter should “require people to use their real names, like Facebook does. Of course people will lie, just as they do on Facebook. But just making people provide a real name and a verifiable email address would help. Twitter is absurd, and the Twitter handles of anti-Semitic, racist trolls aren’t even trying to sound legit.” Amen, brother.
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