Your daily spiel for Friday, June 23

Women dressed as handmaids wandered Tel Aviv to promote the Handmaid's Tale airing on Israeli cable television station HOT. TWITTER SCREENSHOT

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


Cemetery in grave state of disrepair: Why has this midtown Toronto Jewish cemetery been so neglected? Ron Csillag investigates in this week’s cover story.

Rabbis debate role of social justice: When it comes to social justice, or tikkun olam, who’s getting it right? Is it Reform Judaism, which draws people in with an emphasis on Judaism’s values of helping others, or is it Orthodoxy, which thinks tikkun olam is great, but shouldn’t come at the expense of Jewish literacy and continuity?

Cartoon real talk: This New Yorker-published, Toronto-born and Vancouver-based cartoonist has a new book out, about the trials of being a millennial. 

Jacob Samuel cartoon

 

Your Ward News back in the news: Toronto couple Lisa and Warren Kinsella have brought a criminal complaint against the editor and publisher of the highly controversial publication Your Ward News. The Kinsellas say they’re concerned about a recent article in which the paper’s editor allegedly suggests his followers may decide to “bludgeon the Kinsellas to death.”

Memorializing Warmbier: A rabbi at the Brody Jewish Center at the University of Virginia called Otto Warmbier, the American, and now revealed as Jewish, college student who was detained in North Korea for over a year and died shortly after returning home in a coma, “one of the most intellectually curious people I’ve ever met” at a public memorial for the student.

Handmaids at the beach: Half a dozen women dressed as handmaids from the hit television series The Handmaid’s Tale silently wandered the streets of Tel Aviv yesterday, to promote the show’s airing on Israeli cable TV station HOT.