Your Daily Spiel For July 25

Ivanka Trump at a rally for her father in Manchester, New Hampshire WIKI COMMONS PHOTO
Ivanka Trump. WIKI COMMONS PHOTO.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser, Ivanka Trump, announced yesterday that she is shutting down her namesake clothing and accessories brand. She said that her work for the foreseeable future will be focused on policy in Washington.

Herman Shine, 96, who was one of the last survivors to escape Auschwitz, died on Monday. He worked as a roofer at the Nazi death camp before escaping with the help of a Polish partisan who hid Shine on his farm for three months.

Over 230 immigrants from North America arrived in Israel this morning, including the daughter of former U.S. senator Joseph Lieberman and her family. Around 600 immigrants arrived in Israel on Monday and Tuesday from the United States, France, Russia, Argentina, Ukraine and Brazil.

In the Montreal borough of Outremont, Que., relations between Hasidim and francophone populations are improving. For at least 30 years, tensions between the two groups have frequently boiled over.