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North Star with Ellin Bessner

North Star with Ellin Bessner

The CJN Podcasts

871 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 871 episodes. That works out to roughly 300 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 yesterday, with 109 episodes already out so far this year. Published by The CJN Podcasts.

Episodes
871
Running
2021–2026 · 5y
Median length
22 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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Canada’s first Oct. 7 memorial inside a Jewish cemetery is in Calgary

Oct 7, 202622 min

New antisemitic flyers in Belleville raise alarm: 'This is where these ideas begin”

Oct 5, 202622 min

Honourable Menschen: The King of Kensington’s creator, a Holocaust historian, an Elvis-loving philanthropist and two rabbis

Oct 2, 202628 min

Israel votes October 27. The real political drama may come after

Sep 30, 202626 min

After Winnipeg's Jewish archives flooded, an enormous recovery effort is underway

Sep 28, 202625 min

Canada's Jewish leaders call for armed guards, more police at all their institutions

Sep 25, 202623 min

'Someone was protecting us': Belleville's guest Rabbi Oded Peles on surviving the Yom Kippur attack and what's next

Sep 23, 202628 min

Deborah Lyons: Canada’s Advisory Council to Combat Antisemitism Must Deliver

Sep 18, 202623 min

Israel’s new Toronto consul general says boycotts are not the solution

Sep 14, 202623 min

Beth Tzedec, Canada’s largest synagogue, erecting perimeter fence for High Holidays

Sep 11, 202624 min

New Israeli Oct. 7 film about to premiere at TIFF, amid boycott calls

Sep 9, 202625 min

Federal court orders Carney government to release more Nazi war criminal documents

Sep 4, 202642 min

Why Toronto’s Orthodox Rabbis won’t officiate at MAID funerals, or provide burial plots

Sep 2, 202630 min

CBC changed its terrorism policy for 9/11—but still not for Hamas

Aug 31, 202623 min

Jewish groups 'relieved' after Montreal softens controversial anti-Israel vote

Aug 28, 202624 min

Canadian Jewish milk and honey farmers on Trump’s trade war: 'You can’t concede on sovereignty'

Aug 26, 202627 min

Back to school: TanenbaumCHAT and OJCS's two new heads of school on Jewish education, safety and joy

Aug 24, 202628 min

Late Holocaust survivor Eva Olsson spoke to over 1.5 million students

Aug 21, 202612 min

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

Aug 19, 202623 min

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

Aug 17, 202627 min