Your daily spiel for Thursday, May 4

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

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


You oughta know: Alanis Morissette’s former business manager, Jonathan Todd Schwartz, has been sentenced to six years in prison and $8.6 million in restitution fees after admitting to embezzling millions of dollars from the singer.

Cemetery mural to urge respect: A Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, at which close to 200 headstones were vandalized in winter, will soon feature on its premises a mural urging respect for people’s differences.

Netanyahu calls out Abbas’ claim: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a statement taking issue with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ statement that the Palestinians “teach their children peace.”

Kosher tweet?: American rabbi Shmuley Boteach, likely best known for his book Kosher Sex, posted a photo to Twitter this past week of him posing with White House strategist Steve Bannon, in front of the latter’s “secret” to-do list.