Your daily spiel for Thursday, Jan. 28

Banned Norwegian ad featuring teddy bears dressed up as Muammar Gaddafi and Adolf Hitler
Banned Norwegian ad featuring teddy bears dressed up as Muammar Gaddafi and Adolf Hitler

U.S./Canada: A 27-year-old Montreal Jewish woman is in stable condition after she was attacked by a knife-wielding man.

Congregants belonging to a Markham Chabad shul gave new meaning to the term tikkun olam recently, after making their way downtown to provide food and hot beverages to the homeless.

Latkepalooza
Latkepalooza

Zane Caplansky, proprietor of Caplansky’s Delicatessen in Toronto, has announced the 6th Annual Latkepalooza! Taking place on Sunday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m.

As the Forward points out, there’s currently a (rarely enforced) law in the U.S. specifying that products made in the West Bank or Gaza should be marked as such. In the wake of the EU’s establishment of such guidelines, however, U.S. Customs might be changing its tune. In other political news, Anne Frank’s stepsister, Eva Schloss, has compared the Donald to Hitler.

Israel: Seven Hamas militants were killed after a tunnel collapsed close to the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel. The gunmen were repairing the tunnel damaged during the 2014 war, which they used to stage attacks against Israeli civilians.

The UN’s Ban Ki-moon is not backing down from comments likening Palestinian terrorism to “human nature,” much to the chagrin of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, and others.

Megadeth is coming to Israel, set to perform for their fifth time in the Holy Land. Sweet.

World: Italian newspaper Il Foglio commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day in its own way yesterday, asking readers to send selfies of themselves wearing kippahs for “Wear a Kippah” day (each Il Foglio newspaper came with its own kippah). A solidarity campaign of the highest calibre.

Il Foglio's 'Wear a Kippah day' campaign
Il Foglio’s ‘Wear a Kippah day’ campaign

As the rest of the world marked Holocaust Remembrance Day, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei released a video denying it. Looking forward to reestablishing relations with them. Speaking of Iran, French Jews are mortified after the country’s Hassan Rouhani came by for a visit.

A teen in Australia reportedly planned to pack a kangaroo full of explosives, paint it with the ISIS symbol, and attack police with it, Sweden may reject some 80,000 asylum seekers and deport them, and Norway has banned an ad campaign that features teddy bears dressed as dictators like Adolf Hitler and Kim Jong-Il.

Culture: Jewish-Israeli singer/composer Shye Ben-Tzur composes Indian and Muslim devotion music. Now he’s working with Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood. Also in the realm of spirituality, David Bowie’s final music video apparently includes “hidden references about his Kabbalah beliefs.”

A Brazilian film about Moses and the Ten Commandments is expected to break the record for the country’s most popular box office smash. Israeli actor Natalie Portman stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to take on the classic Iko, Iko with Sia and the Roots.

Rihanna’s ANTI is finally out. Fun fact: did you know the artist behind the cover is Israeli contemporary artist Roy Nachum?

Rihanna shows off artwork for 'ANTI' by Roy Nachum
Rihanna shows off artwork for ‘ANTI’ by Roy Nachum

Disney fan? Speak Hebrew? You’ll enjoy this:

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Posted by The Israel Project on Thursday, January 28, 2016


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