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North Star with Ellin Bessner

North Star with Ellin Bessner

The CJN Podcasts

832 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 832 episodes. That works out to roughly 280 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 3 days ago, with 70 episodes already out so far this year. Published by The CJN Podcasts.

Episodes
832
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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Canada's next generation of Jewish leaders is already making a difference

Jun 26, 202624 min

The Human Rights museum's only Jewish trustee wanted the Nakba Exhibit. He just quit

Jun 24, 202629 min

What we know about the deadly Montreal shootings that shook a Jewish neighbourhood

Jun 23, 202627 min

A synagogue heard local schoolchildren were hungry. They've delivered 7,000 lunches

Jun 22, 202624 min

Extremist settlers 'threaten' Israeli society, President Herzog warned. This Canadian activist flew to witness for herself

Jun 19, 202630 min

Montreal rabbi says 'I'll eat my kippah' if firebomb attack wasn't deliberate hate crime

Jun 17, 202630 min

"We need an incredibly strong Ark": Jonathan Levy's Farewell to TanenbaumCHAT

Jun 15, 202629 min

The protesters were farther away at Toronto's Walk with Israel. The anger and anxiety weren't

Jun 10, 202617 min

After a difficult year, Toronto's Jewish community prepares to walk again

Jun 5, 202623 min

Carney says Canada's civic compact is failing Jewish Canadians. But Jewish leaders want action

Jun 3, 202643 min

Gail Asper calls for review of new Nakba exhibit at the museum her father founded

Jun 1, 202630 min

"We Belong Here”: He got Niagara Falls, Canadian Landmarks Lit Up for Jewish Heritage Month

May 29, 202624 min

A Yiddish 'Fiddler on the Roof' Arrives in Canada at Exactly the Right Time

May 27, 202625 min

New sightings, expanded search for missing autistic Toronto teen, Esther, now into second week

May 25, 202618 min

Honourable Menschen: Stephen Lewis saved millions from HIV/AIDS in Africa

May 20, 202629 min

The Canadian "Challah Mom" getting thousands of Jewish women to bake challah together

May 15, 202627 min

“I Just Want to Go to the Bus Stop..and Not Have to See This Hate”: Jewish Vancouver residents fight anti-Israel chalker

May 13, 202626 min

Why no hate charges? Ottawa Jewish leader reacts to sentencing of his antisemitic attacker

May 11, 202628 min

Five Years of The CJN’s North Star: From Lockdown to Oct. 7 and Beyond

May 8, 202629 min

A snapshot of Canada’s Jews today: more newcomers, more intermarriage, aging

May 6, 202627 min