Your daily spiel for Tuesday, May 23

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


Not nutty about strawberry ‘n’ nuts: Check out HardCOR Snackie’s review of the newest, somewhat controversial M&M flavour.

Evil losers: President Donald Trump has opted to refer to the perpetrators of last night’s deadly attack in Manchester as “evil losers,” and not “monsters.” 

Fake news for everyone: The rabbi who converted Ivanka Trump says reports last week that he granted the first daughter and her husband special dispensation to travel by plane on Shabbat was “fake news.”

More money for Romanian survivors: Lawmakers in Bucharest have voted to give additional money to Romania’s Holocaust survivors, allotting an extra £80 per month for each year of a survivor’s deportation or detention.

Greek Jewish activist dies: The Greek artist, scholar and activist known for promoting Jewish culture in Greece, Nikos Stavroulakis, died Friday on the island of Crete, at the age of 85.

Britain’s first black, Jewish, American princess-to-be? If the gossip mill is correct and Prince Harry is set to marry his actress girlfriend Meghan Markle, the UK will be have its first black, (half) Jewish, American (with Canadian ties!!) princess all in one go.