Your Daily Spiel is The CJN’s daily roundup of trending stories in the Jewish world.
Would you name your kid Romulus? The top baby names of 2017 are out, and among them some fairly traditional Jewish names as identified by the Jewish parenting blog Kveller.
Is Judaism sex-positive? On a related note, are Jews obsessed with sex? Check out this week’s cover story.
CBC show disinvites Kay: National Post columnist Barbara Kay has been asked not to return to the CBC radio program Because News because of her views, expressed on social media, that challenge the given narrative on residential schools.
Q 4 @jonkay and @jessewente: TRC did not allow witnessing from anyone w positive #residentialschools experience. Would u give them platform?
— Barbara Kay (@BarbaraRKay) May 14, 2017
Jewish reporter allegedly body slammed: Greg Gianforte, the Republican candidate for a Montana congressional seat who’s backed by President Trump, was charged with misdemeanour assault after allegedly body slamming a Jewish reporter for The Guardian.
Not chuffed about chicken swinging: A federal judge in Los Angeles has dismissed a lawsuit filed by an animal rights group against a Southern California synagogue for practising the pre-Yom Kippur ritual of swinging a chicken around by its legs. The Virginia-based United Poultry Concerns is appealing the dismissal.
Started from the bottom feels far off: Toronto (and the Tribe’s) very own Drake has made history, becoming the first ever artist to have a song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the last eight consecutive years.