Your Daily Spiel for June 20

Paul Rudd in The Catcher Was a Spy (IFC Films photo)

In a bold move, the Trump administration has announced that it will leave the U.N. Human Rights Council due to the council’s prejudiced purview of Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supported the decision and called the strategy “courageous”.

Norwegian rapper Kaveh Kholardi used profanities to curse Jews at a public event in Oslo that was designed to promote diversity. Kholardi later took to his Facebook account to claim that his comment was taken out of context.

An English Rabbi has become a local celebrity after his remarkable story from September 11, 2001 was dramatized in the award-winning musical Come From Away.

Paul Rudd in The Catcher Was a Spy (IFC Films photo)

The Catcher Was a Spy, a new film about a Jewish baseball player who was sent by the U.S. government to assassinate Nazi physicist Werner Heisenberg, is opening in select theatres this weekend. The film stars Ant-Man and the Wasp lead actor Paul Rudd.