Your Daily Spiel for August 16
A fashion shoot taking place at the Canadian National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa has angered Jewish leaders; TIFF has partnered with the Yorkville Jewish Centre to provide High Holiday services to Jewish industry attendees; Israel’s Educational Television channel went off the air recently; Ruby Rose has deleted her Twitter account following backlash over her being cast as Batwoman.
Your Daily Spiel for August 13
Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman claims that every Palestinian killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip in the past four-and-a-half months was a member of the Hamas terrorist group; the upcoming live-action Kim Possible movie will be co-directed by Canadian Jews Adam B. Stein and Zach Lipovsky; 2,000 youths marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday demanding equality for the LGBT community in Israel.
Emerging Israeli director earns retrospective
Michael Fraiman profiles Israeli director Nadav Lapid, whose films will be showing at a special retrospective at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto starting on August 16.
