Your daily spiel for Wednesday, April 26

Screenshot of Your Ward News
Screenshot of Your Ward News

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


Hot Jewish films at Hot Docs: No plans this weekend? Lots of plans? Cancel them, and get thee to the Hot Docs festival. We’ve got your Jewish content and Israeli film recommendations here.

Ask The Rabbi: The rabbi The CJN‘s new Ask the Rabbi love/relationships column has launched (both in print and online), and you should probably check out its first instalment here.

 

Hearing on delivering racist rag: Yesterday in Toronto, a board of review hearing began to address a federal order prohibiting Canada Post from delivering the racist, pro-Nazi, Holocaust-denying publication Your Ward News. 

Trump hates anti-Semitism (yesterday): President Trump said a bunch of things about being committed to confronting anti-Semitism and supporting Israel at yesterday’s annual Holocaust remembrance ceremony at the Capitol.

Highest educated are less observant: American Jews with the most education are also the least religious, finds a Pew Research Center study on religiosity and education in the United States.

Trump to visit Israel: President Trump says he’ll visit Israel at the end of May, on the heels of a  meeting scheduled with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on May 3 in Washington.

Critics not sold on Sarsour: Some Jewish leaders are taking issue with a decision by City University of New York’s School of Public Health to have Muslim-American political activist Linda Sarsour deliver the commencement speech in June.