North Star with Ellin Bessner
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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
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
Inside Canada's Human Rights museum's Palestinian Nakba exhibit: What we saw
Jul 3, 202633 min
From homesteaders to high tech: How Jewish Calgary celebrates Stampede
Jun 29, 202626 min
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
‘Not Optimistic’: Idsinga Skeptical of Toronto Police Chief’s Vow to Probe Antisemitism on the Force
May 4, 202636 min
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Orthodox Jewish Women’s Hair: new Canadian "sheitel" film
May 1, 202627 min
22 Recommendations, No Time to Wait: Senator David Arnot on Canada’s New Antisemitism Report
Apr 29, 202625 min
One Year of Mark Carney and a Critical Week for Jewish Canadians
Apr 27, 202633 min
Israel’s Final Flag Raising in Toronto Was a Celebration, Not a Flashpoint
Apr 24, 202622 min
Israel at 78 Through A Sabra Who Was There—and a Son of 1948
Apr 22, 202626 min
From Hannah Senesh to Hersh Goldberg-Polin: the Meaning of Jewish Heroism today
Apr 20, 202628 min
Ahead of Yom ha-Zikaron, this Rabbi’s new book confronts trauma, Oct. 7 and the power of forgiveness
Apr 17, 202630 min