North Star with Ellin Bessner
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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
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