Your Daily Spiel for August 30

U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, recently said that a rollout of the Trump administration’s peace plan for Israel is “not imminent.”; Natalie Portman and Timothée Chalamet are among the list of talent attending the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival; and the August 29 rally to oppose B’nai Brith’s “smear campaign” against the Canadian Union of Postal Workers drew about 75 pro-Palestinian protesters and some 200 members of the Jewish community.

Your Daily Spiel for August 24

FIFA has banned Jibril Rajoub from attending soccer games for a year; anti-semitic slogans were found on monuments for Holocaust victims in Estonia; and Drake will present the critically-acclaimed film Monsters and Men at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.

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