Your Daily Spiel is The CJN’s roundup of trending stories in the Jewish world.
Graves not vandalized: Despite the Jewish Defence League’s insistence that toppled and smashed tombstones at Roselawn Cemetery were vandalized, cemetery officials say otherwise.
Bomb threats come north: The JCC in Vancouver was one of four North American JCCs to receive a bomb threat via e-mail on Tuesday.
Readers react to piece: CJN readers have been swift to react, on social media and in our comments section, to Mira Sucharov’s latest piece arguing that Muslim-American activist Linda Sarsour, who helped spearhead a fundraising campaign to repair a vandalized Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, isn’t anti-Semitic.
.@sucharov Respected Canadian Jewish writer stands up for @lsarsour in main Canadian Jewish paper #IWD https://t.co/Y4Ue87W1Dr @TheCJN
— Rabbi David Mivasair (@RabFirstUnited) March 9, 2017
@TheCJN @sucharov Sucharov ignores commonly accepted definitions of anti-semitism in her whitewash of Sarsour: https://t.co/8TDoeyCUfj
— Harvey Kribs (@BustingtheLiars) March 9, 2017
Trudeau on bomb threats: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged the threats to Canada’s Jewish community this week and expressed solidarity.
This week, Jewish communities in Canada have again been targeted by hateful threats & acts. I want to say again – we’ll stand by you.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) March 9, 2017
We the north: CHAT’s northern campus announces it will be closing at the end of this school year.
U.S. on Israel’s new travel ban: The U.S. State Department has affirmed that a new law that would ban entry to foreigners who publicly support boycotts of the country is Israel’s “sovereign decision.”
Women’s strike and Palestine: Yesterday’s International Women’s Strike drew criticism from some who took issue with its call, in its platform, “for the decolonization of Palestine.”
Festivities and fakery: The Purim story is full of secrets. What can it teach us about fake news?
Piety needs person-to-person goodness: Rabbi Kelman stresses that Jewish ritual observance without solid person-to-person ethics isn’t cool.