Your daily spiel for Tuesday, Feb. 21

Donald Trump speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland GAGE SKIDMORE PHOTO
Donald Trump speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland GAGE SKIDMORE PHOTO

Your Daily Spiel is The CJN’s daily roundup of trending stories in the Jewish world.


Israeli cinephiles in Toronto take note! The Toronto Israeli Film Series (TIFS) runs Feb. 25 and 26 at City Playhouse.

Anti-Semitism in Willowdale: Jewish residents at a condo building in Toronto’s Yonge Street and Park Home Avenue area were targeted over the weekend, reporting that notes with anti-Semitic slurs were posted on their doors. Some said their mezuzot were vandalized.

Jewish cemetery desecrated: More than 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Missouri were vandalized yesterday.

“Anti-Semitism is horrible and it’s going to stop, and it has to stop,” U.S. President Donald Trump declared this morning, after significant prodding from Jewish groups to condemn the wave of bomb threats targeting Jewish community centres across the country.

A Muslim civil rights group, the Council of American-Islamic Relations, is offering a reward of a $5,000 (US)  for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever has been making false bomb threats to Jewish community centres across America.

No decent kosher food in prison: An inmate in Tennessee has filed a lawsuit alleging that the prison system is trying to force him to break kashrut by giving him substandard kosher meals.