Your daily spiel for Thursday, March 23

Garth Drabinsky in his heyday

Your daily spiel is The CJN’s roundup of Jewish stories trending around the world.


Bomb threat at York campus: A building at York University’s Glendon campus was evacuated due to a bomb threat yesterday. Apparently, the campus has been targeted by similar threats, and other anti-Semitic and anti-black incidents, for weeks now.

Is an Israeli the perpetrator of Jewish bomb threats? Speaking of bomb threats targeting Jews: an Israeli-American teenager was arrested today on suspicion of carrying out more than 100 bomb threats on Jewish institutions in the United States.

More anti-Semitic mosque videos: More videos of sermons delivered at Canadian mosques that contain religious leaders calling the Jewish people evil or saying all Jews should die have come to light.

“Algeria, where are your Jews?” Watch this video of the director of the organization UN Watch delivering a sharp rebuke to leaders from various Arab states at a UN Human Rights Council meeting this week.

Interpret this tweet: Canadian theatre legend Garth Drabinsky liked The CJN contributor Phyllis Feldman’s review of his new musical Sousatzka. Unless he’s being sarcastic? I can’t tell.

From sex symbol to schlub: Is Richard Gere playing a nebbish New York Jew in the new movie Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer too much of a stretch?