Your Daily Spiel is The CJN‘s daily roundup of trending stories in the Jewish world
Canada: The Tories and Liberals are in agreement, and Canada is poised to pass a motion that formally rejects the BDS movement against Israel. “The Liberals do not support this boycott movement, because we do not believe it is conducive to achieving peace in the Middle East,” said Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion. “We must fight anti-Semitism in all its forms.”
Canadian Holocaust survivors Bill Glied and Max Eisen are in Germany for the trial of former Nazi guard Reinhold Hanning, accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people, JNF Canada has pulled its support from an event over Noa, a left-wing Israeli singer that may or may not support BDS, and a poll confirms that over 70 per cent of Canadians don’t support the Liberal party’s goal of bringing in over 25,000 refugees.
Iranian-born Canadian Sima Goel has penned an article about Ottawa’s upcoming Hijab Solidarity Day, stating her refusal to wear the hijab as a prerequisite for solidarity with Muslim women, and CJN columnist Gil Try has written an open letter to Justin Trudeau about his controversial Holocaust remembrance statement.
U.S.: A Miami JCC has cancelled a controversial play after several residents claimed it’s anti-Israel, a Florida mansion (with a built-in synagogue) is up for sale (worth $7.5 million US), Donald Trump says that Barack Obama is the worst thing to ever happen to Israel (where’s he getting his intel?), University of Illinois students in Chicago have successfully watered down the anti-Semitic aspects of a boycott Israel campaign, and, despite the movement’s momentum, a new report claims that anti-Israel activity on U.S. campuses has actually dropped by 15 per cent.
Israel: IDF troops thwarted an attempted car ramming in the West Bank, a Palestinian attacker was killed after he stabbed two Israeli police officers at Damascus Gate, the off-duty IDF soldier killed yesterday has been revealed to be a U.S. citizen, an 18-year-old Israeli has confessed to killing her twin sister (with the help of her boyfriend), SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum has threatened to shut down a factory if the government doesn’t renew entry permits for 74 Palestinian employees (proof of the negative ramifications the BDS movement has had on PALESTINIANS), a one-year-old baby has drowned in southern Israel, Business Insider has replaced a political photo that had nothing to do with the accompanying story (Israeli women succeeding in the workplace), and Israel’s Ministry of Culture has introduced a new award for artists that produce Oriental music.
World: An El Al plane was damaged in a minor crash on an Amsterdam runway while passengers were still onboard (no one was injured), a haredi school in London is teaching its pupils that women exist to “clean and cook” (…no words), a new study confirms that Homo sapiens left Africa tens of thousands of years earlier than what was previously assumed, a 20-year-old Palestinian stuntman is making waves online as “Gaza’s Jason” (referring to Jason Statham), a Moroccan Jew was found dead at an immigration centre in the U.K., a German nazi hunter has been granted Israeli citizenship, and an Israeli entrepreneur is moving forward with his plan to renovate and expand the iconic Camden Market in London.
Culture: Amazon has bought Woody Allen’s new film (we’re still waiting on that show with Miley Cyrus), and the former American Idol contestant who made aliyah is apparently in Israel to join the IDF’s band.
Israel’s indie music festival is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year.
A comic featuring the first-ever appearance of Spider-Man (created by Jewish icon Stan Lee) has been purchased for some $454,000 (US). The man who sold it first bought the 1962 edition of Amazing Fantasy No. 15 in 1980 for $1,200. Talk about a wise investment.
Food: It’s Shabbat, and that means it’s time for another edition of The Shabbat Table, The CJN‘s weekly food blog. This week’s recipes star cake, and lots of it.
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