Your daily spiel for Friday, March 17

The Jerusalem Marathon in 2012. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

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


Started from the bottom: Drake’s Jewish identity isn’t much discussed among his fans. The CJN contributor Michael Fraiman decided to delve into the rapper’s complicated relationship with Judaism.

Rebel, rebel, anti-Semite: Rebel Media‘s Gavin McInnes (formerly of Vice) is getting pushback for videos he shot on a Rebel-led trip to Israel. Like, uh, the one where he’s staggering down a Tel-Aviv street in a mesh tank top ranting about everything he hates about Jews.

Haredim wanted to disrupt marathon: Israeli police detained dozens of haredi Orthodox bus passengers who were allegedly heading to Jerusalem to disrupt the city’s annual marathon.

A rabbi, a priest and a gay atheist walk into a…bong: The three men got stoned together and talked about spirituality and peace, and the Internet was really into it.

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Jewish groups happy with halted ban: Several Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, praised the halting of U.S. Donald Trump’s latest travel ban by federal judges in Hawaii and Maryland.