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North Star with Ellin Bessner

North Star with Ellin Bessner

The CJN Podcasts

854 episodesEN-CA

Show overview

North Star with Ellin Bessner has been publishing since 2021, and across the 5 years since has built a catalogue of 854 episodes. That works out to roughly 290 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.

Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 16 min and 26 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-CA-language News show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 92 episodes already out so far this year. Published by The CJN Podcasts.

Episodes
854
Running
2021–2026 · 5y
Median length
21 min
Cadence
Several per week

From the publisher

Newsmaker conversations from The Canadian Jewish News, hosted by Ellin Bessner, a veteran broadcaster, writer and journalist.

Latest Episodes

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Late Holocaust survivor Eva Olsson spoke to over 1.5 million students

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Meet the man who has been chasing the world's best gelato since 2011

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B.C. wildfires: Jews open their homes, kitchens and rally to help evacuees

Aug 17, 202627 min

Jewish students speak out after landmark campus antisemitism study

Aug 14, 202626 min

Finding their people: How B.C.’s small Jewish communities are growing

Aug 12, 202625 min

This Canadian soldier waited 109 years for his funeral Kaddish

Aug 10, 202625 min

‘In my baseball team, I’m the only Jewish kid’: What the JCC Maccabi Games mean to its athletes

Aug 7, 202626 min

Moncton's Tiferes Israel Synagogue celebrates 100 years with reunion, plans for second century

Aug 5, 202623 min

From Toronto to Texas: Why Shloime Zionce is driving his Cybertruck cross-continent on a mitzvah mission

Jul 31, 202625 min

Building Jewish Canada out West: Vancouver's JWest reaches milestone, Edmonton's new JCC well underway

Jul 29, 202627 min

Rejected by his parents for being gay, Harvey Brownstone turned pain into a best-selling memoir

Jul 27, 202638 min

The search for Esti: Inside Shomrim Toronto's biggest mission ever

Jul 24, 202640 min

Meet the Canadian now leading one of the world's oldest Jewish women's organizations

Jul 22, 202627 min

He survived the Holocaust as a child. Now he has drawn those memories

Jul 20, 202625 min

[Greatest Hits] Nautical nachas: This summer, welcome Shabbat on a boat in the Laurentians

Jul 17, 202628 min

[Menschwarmers] Apparently Egypt losing in the World Cup is a Zionist conspiracy

Jul 15, 202634 min

[Greatest Hits] Despite a victorious court ruling, women are still second-class citizens at the Western Wall

Jul 13, 202619 min

[Not in Heaven] Do you need to feel hate to commit a hate crime?

Jul 10, 202638 min

[Greatest Hits] After escaping the Jasper forest fires, this tourist couple found safety in the Jewish community

Jul 8, 202628 min

[Greatest Hits] The best country for Jews to live in is... Canada?

Jul 6, 202610 min