Your daily spiel for Friday, Jan. 20

Yolocaust

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


Today, as you know, is one for the history books. Here’s some Jewish news:

CNN's Anderson Cooper speaks at the 2016 Canadian Friends of Hebrew University gala
CNN’s Anderson Cooper speaks at the 2016 Canadian Friends of Hebrew University gala

For this week’s cover story, Sheri Shefa looks at whether the big charity galas popular to the Jewish community’s previous generation have any chance of resonating with millennials, and of being effective fundraising tools.

 

 

 

CJN contributor and blogger Daniella English writes about all the irritating and unhelpful things people have said to her about her recent divorce, and advises the clueless-but well-meaning-masses to use a different approach.

Bibi’s BFF? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted a hearty congrats to the just-about-to-be U.S. President Donald Trump, calling the latter his “friend.”

 

Meanwhile, other public figures are less enthralled with the new presidentRabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, an Orthodox rabbi in Phoenix, Ariz. who is founder and president of Orthodox social justice organization Uri L’Tzedek, has written a prayer asking God to guide the incoming U.S. leader “away from his basest instincts” and to “thwart his plans to target certain groups and strengthen white supremacy.”

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For reasons of pikuach nefesh, the shomer Shabbat couple Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have been granted rabbinical sanction to travel by car during the inauguration.

As Trump prepares to take office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has apparently been briefed by the army, police and the Shin Bet security service on the prospect of increased violence in Israel should Donald Trump make good on his promise to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

An Israeli satirist and author living in Berlin is breaking the Internet with a biting online project he’s named “Yolocaust.” The site features selfies people have taken of themselves posing – smilingly, goofily, even seductively – at the Berlin Holocaust memorial but, with a quick shift of the mouse, transposes the subjects onto chilling photographs of piled up corpses at Nazi concentration camps.