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

Canada: Nazi hunter Thomas Walther and Holocaust survivor William Glied spoke to The CJN about participating in the trial of former SS guard Reinhold Hanning, Conservative foreign affairs critic Tony Clement told a conference that Canada should not seek a seat on the United Nations Security Council if it means compromising its support for Israel, for the third time in five years the leader of an aboriginal community in Northern Manitoba is taking its younger members to Israel, TVO’s flagship current affairs show The Agenda is celebrating its tenth anniversary, an Israeli entrepreneur has started an inclusive school modelled after Canada’s Pearson College, and this video of MP Anthony Housefather giving an impassioned speech about BDS is getting some traction online:

U.S.: With Donald Trump winning South Carolina and Hillary Clinton taking Nevada, both candidates are on similar paths to securing a nomination, the Kalamazoo Uber driver who went on a killing rampage Saturday (leaving six dead) has been charged with six counts of murder, a Harvard student group has lost $1 million (US) in funding after sponsoring a pro-Palestine event, Congress is reportedly moving to urge the U.S. to increase its investment in Israeli security companies as part of its countering of the BDS movement, and the Chicago-area billboards that call for a boycott of Israel will be removed after a public outcry.

Israel: A Palestinian teen has been indicted for the murder of Dafna Meir, a mother of six who was stabbed in her West Bank home, Samuel Willenberg, the last remaining survivor of the Treblinka camp revolt, has died in his Tel Aviv home at 93, new reports claim that Petach Tikvah has frequently refused to marry Ethiopian-Israeli couples, an Israeli professor has apologized after saying that judges “should be hanged” for allowing Palestinians to suffer, an openly gay rabbi has been arrested in Israel on suspicion of theft and fraud, a scientist who has been refusing to give his wife a ‘get’ (or divorce) has been fired from his position at Bar Ilan University, and an IDF soldier has come out as transgender. Liam Rubin, formerly Linoy, says he’s been accepted by his colleagues and commanders for who he is.

According to indictments filed last month, a Hamas terror cell was planning on assassinating Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, a new ten-year military aid package from Washington to Israel is currently being finalized, Israel intercepted a shipment of drones disguised as toys bound for Gaza, an Israeli television show is poking fun at foreign media bias toward Israel, and a video being widely shared on Facebook displays several of the Palestinian attacks against Israelis that have taken place over the last four months:

World: The U.S. and Russia have announced a planned ceasefire in Syria to take effect on Feb. 27 (ISIS is not involved), Austria has cancelled an event including Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein (who has likened the Israeli government to the Nazis), a Melbourne Jewish day school has publicly come out in favour of same-sex marriage, sponsors of a pro-peace initiative at Cambridge University have been rejected by their pro-Palestinian counterparts, and a month after passing BDS, the Spanish city of Aviles has backtracked on the boycott, calling it “discriminatory” (where were they a month ago?).

A Syrian refugee has launched a website that tells the stories of Israelis who help out refugees, Kenya’s president has arrived in Israel for the first time since 1994, there are two new books on Adolf Hitler, one called When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History’s Unknown Chapters that argues he was a drug addict, another, Hitler’s Last Day: Minute by Minute, says he had a “tiny deformed penis” and only one testicle, and after hundreds of anti-Israel posters were plastered around London’s Tube by activists, an Israeli MK has stated that he spoke to mayor Boris Johnson, and the posters (see main photo above) have since been removed.

Though the EU has introduced guidelines to label certain Israeli products, this might not be what they had in mind:

Science: Scientists at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, are looking for rabbis and other religious leaders willing to do psychedelic hallucinogen-inducing drugs (specifically mushrooms) to discover its effects on spirituality.

Culture: An Arabic-language hip hop movie directed by an Israeli and featuring a mostly-Palestinian cast has won an award at an international film festival in Berlin, the Forward takes a look at iconic Jewish photographer Annie Leibovitz’s latest project, and a British street artist is comparing the Donald to the Adolf.

Drake stopped by for an impromptu performance at a girl’s bat mitzvah in New York this weekend. What a mensch.

Drake performing “Hotline Bling” at a bat mitzvah tonight in NYC. pic.twitter.com/M6oASIncUD

— Word On Road (@WordOnRd) February 21, 2016

In other Drizzy news, the video for his and Rihanna’s new song, Work, shot at a Toronto jerk chicken spot, is finally here.

The Simpsons joined in on mocking the endless drama that is the U.S. elections in its new couch gag, The Debateful Eight. Wait for when Bernie Sanders calls Donald Trump “bubbala.”

Morgan Freeman is joining the ranks of Stephen Colbert, Kevin Hart, and other such actors with easily identifiable voices as the new voice for Israeli startup Waze. If you’re hoping that it’s a reprisal of his role from Bruce Almighty, don’t get too excited.

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