Your Daily Spiel for August 30 [Video]

U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman recently said that a rollout of the Trump administration’s peace plan for Israel is “not imminent.” “I would imagine that we will roll something out. I hesitate even to put a month on it because it has shifted as we continue to listen and talk to people,” Friedman told American Jewish Congress members in a telephone briefing.

In a letter to Stéphane Perrault, the chief electoral officer of Canada, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) pointed out that the scheduled date of the upcoming federal election coincides with Shemini Atzeret, when many activities, including work and travel, are prohibited. CIJA stressed that it is not asking for the date of the election be changed, but “we request that your office give special consideration to this situation. Protecting Canadians’ effective right to vote is a core mandate of your office, and we want to ensure that Canadian Jews’ …