Your daily spiel for Friday, April 7

Scarlett Johansson at TIFF [Wikimedia Commons photo]
Scarlett Johansson

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


Too many Jews, three opinions: Yoni Goldstein weighs in in response to a question raised by a listener on a recent episode of the Canadaland podcast as to whether there is not an “overrepresentation of Jews in the media.”

Spirits not dampened at rally to save CHAT north: Several hundred students and teachers braved the rain yesterday to rally for the salvation of the soon-to-be-closed TanenbaumCHAT north campus.

Israeli praise for Trump’s airstrike: A senior Israeli cabinet minister added to Benjamin Netanyahu’s praise of U.S. President Donald Trump for the U.S. missile strikes on a Syrian army base, saying the move “restored America’s regional leadership in a big way.”

Breaking ties with the alt-right? Will U.S. President Donald Trump’s strike against Syria lose him support from his up-’til-now faithful alt-right followers? In a YouTube video he posted this morning titled The Trump Betrayal, white nationalist Richard Spencer said he is “ready to condemn Donald Trump” for the airstrike.

Scarlett Johansson calls out Ivanka: In a public interview she gave yesterday at the Women in the World Summit in New York, actress Scarlett Johansson, who is Jewish, referred to comments made by the U.S. president’s oldest daughter Ivanka Trump as “old-fashioned,” “uninspired” and “cowardly.”