North Star with Ellin Bessner
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50 years after the Munich Olympics, Germany will finally apologize to victims' families—and a Canadian filmmaker has been sharing their story
Sep 1, 202215 min
How Alexandre Matte channelled his Jewish roots to come second in Toastmasters' global public-speaking contest
Aug 31, 202214 min
He thought his family was wiped out in the Holocaust. Then he discovered 75,000 distant relatives—including Bob Dylan and Bette Midler
Aug 30, 202215 min
Industry watchdog urges Benjamin's funeral home 'do the right thing for grieving families'—or risk losing their license
Aug 29, 202222 min
'I was gaslit continuously': Alexandra Lulka Rotman speaks out about her antisemitism battle with Toronto's school board
Aug 25, 202219 min
Death doesn’t take a holiday: Remembering some significant deaths in Jewish Canada from summer 2022
Aug 24, 202223 min
Thousands of Jews are flying to Switzerland to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the first Zionist Congress
Aug 23, 2022
Mark Goldberg spent years tracking Laith Marouf's hateful tweets. Now, the Canadian government is taking action
Aug 22, 202215 min
Greatest Hits: Meet the oldest bat mitzvah celebrant in Canada—and one of the youngest
Aug 18, 2022
Greatest Hits: Pulling a rabbit out of their virtual hats, these magicians transformed a pandemic into financial success
Aug 17, 202213 min
Greatest Hits: How Zoom is helping to revive Jewish folk music in Canada
Aug 16, 202213 min
Greatest Hits: At nearly 80 years old, Gary Averbach is trekking 1,000km across Canada for cancer research
Aug 15, 202213 min
Greatest Hits: Modern diets are making us fat: A Canadian author explains food cravings
Aug 11, 202212 min
Greatest Hits: Meet the woman at the centre of Jewish life in Abu Dhabi: Canada's ambassador
Aug 10, 202213 min
Greatest Hits: At 13, he got an Apple Watch. At 14, he built a daily prayer app for it
Aug 9, 202211 min
Greatest Hits: A Jewish-Indigenous family explains the importance of truth and reconciliation
Aug 8, 202218 min
Meet the Canadian behind Globle, the web's hot new geography game
Aug 4, 2022
We visited the set of Adam Sandler’s bat mitzvah movie being filmed in Toronto
Aug 3, 202215 min
For nearly 40 years, Benjamin’s funeral home foundation has been keeping 10% of charity donations—until a family sued
Aug 2, 202215 min
At nearly 80 years old, Gary Averbach is trekking 1,000km across Canada for cancer research
Jul 28, 202214 min
The butterfly effect: Why the endangered monarch is a Jewish issue
Jul 27, 202214 min
Go behind the scenes of Zach Hyman's very Jewish charity golf tournament
Jul 26, 202211 min
It’s been a year since Canada’s national antisemitism summit. What has been accomplished?
Jul 25, 202215 min
Meet the Canadian lawyer whose one-act play just won a top Israeli prize
Jul 20, 202215 min
80 years after his death, a Canadian war hero's art finally finds an audience
Jul 19, 2022
Hitmen murdered her son. Eight years later, she's written a tell-all of her grief and survival
Jul 18, 202215 min
How Yukon’s tiny Jewish community is surviving the worst wildfires in a generation
Jul 14, 202216 min
Jewish organizations are outraged over 'bizarre' Montreal court case putting the Holocaust on trial
Jul 13, 202216 min
This 80-year-old Montrealer just celebrated her bat mitzvah for the first time
Jul 12, 202214 min
'I must tell the world what happened': Max Eisen, in his own words
Jul 11, 2022
Meet the flagbearers leading Canada’s team of 600 into the 21st Maccabiah Games
Jul 7, 202214 min
'A better Canada because of him': Tributes pour in at the funeral for renowned historian Irving Abella
Jul 6, 202212 min
A new philanthropic initiative asks wealthy Canadians to donate half their posthumous charitable givings to Jewish causes—but the uptake is slow
Jul 5, 202214 min
Camp Kadimah just reopened for its 79th year. Meet the family who's been there for 77 of them
Jul 4, 202213 min
Despite shattered goodwill, El Al could return to Toronto next spring, expert predicts
Jun 30, 202213 min
Ellis Jacob, CEO of Cineplex, is banking on blockbusters to recover from COVID and inflation
Jun 29, 202215 min
Roman Baber is the Jewish political maverick hoping to lead the Conservative party—and all of Canada
Jun 28, 202219 min
The CJN Daily Dead Beat, Part Deux
Jun 27, 202218 min
Canadian Jewish community stunned by El Al's decision to cease its Toronto route
Jun 23, 202212 min
After 2 years of lockdowns, Ottawa’s Jewish community threw one giant party for 115 b’nai mitzvah
Jun 22, 202215 min
Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein wants to bring Jewish life back to downtown Ottawa
Jun 21, 202214 min
Meet the real rabbi who starred in Drake’s controversial new music video
Jun 20, 202215 min
This gripping new photo exhibit showcases 161 Holocaust survivors with links to Calgary
Jun 16, 202213 min
How Jews brought the movies to Val-d'Or, Que.—and how the city is celebrating them today
Jun 15, 202216 min
Cancelled by COVID 4 times, this couple's wedding party is finally happening
Jun 14, 202216 min
'I don’t know if justice will ever be served for him': Survivor speaks out against 79-year-old rabbi accused of sex crimes
Jun 13, 202216 min
Will Israel's government collapse after just one year?
Jun 9, 202212 min
Go west, young Jew: Hamilton, London and Windsor are growing their numbers with people priced out of Toronto
Jun 8, 202212 min
It took a war in Ukraine for this woman to finally find the family that saved her grandparents' lives
Jun 7, 202215 min
Israel just airlifted in 180 Ethiopian Jews. Meet the Canadians who helped make it happen
Jun 2, 202215 min