North Star with Ellin Bessner
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Out of the Dragons' Den and into the fire: Amy Rosen on her 'humiliating' TV debut and new show
Mar 3, 202214 min
Swastikas drawn and coins thrown: This is life for Jewish high school students
Mar 2, 202215 min
An Ottawa family builds bridges between Ukrainians and Jews—now, more than ever
Mar 1, 202214 min
'There will be another Babi Yar if the world doesn’t stop Putin': A plea from Jewish Kyiv
Feb 28, 2022
Meet the writer whose semi-autobiographical Jewish conversion story won her Canada's top Jewish playwriting prize
Feb 24, 202213 min
David's new tea: This entrepreneur is betting against supermarkets for his next venture
Feb 23, 202215 min
Which Canadian campuses are safest for Jews? Anywhere outside Toronto
Feb 22, 2022
Pulling a rabbit out of their virtual hats, these magicians transformed a pandemic into financial success
Feb 17, 202215 min
Born with a rare disorder, Maya Sinclair is overcoming the odds
Feb 16, 202215 min
Welcome to the other side: Hear from Jews who support the truckers
Feb 15, 202217 min
Taking back Ottawa's streets: Inside the counter-protests against the truckers
Feb 14, 202214 min
Antisemitism in Toronto schools, Part 2: The targeted teen speaks out
Feb 10, 202216 min
Antisemitism in Toronto schools, Part 1: Why are we still seeing Nazi symbols in classrooms?
Feb 9, 202213 min
Inside the initiative to help impoverished Holocaust survivors live out their days in comfort
Feb 8, 202214 min
Meet the Canadian Jewish performer pushing for people with disabilities to take centre stage
Feb 7, 202216 min
Meet the Canadians behind the scenes of the Jewish movement to boycott the Beijing Olympics
Feb 3, 202212 min
The untold story of Isay Rottenberg, Nazi Germany's 'reverse Schindler'
Feb 2, 202212 min
Justin Trudeau’s chief policy advisor, the highest-ranking Jewish woman in the PMO, has stepped down
Feb 1, 202216 min
'Who cares' about swastikas in the trucker convoy, group's Jewish spokesperson asks
Jan 31, 202212 min
Why Emma Cunningham quit the Ontario NDP over antisemitism
Jan 27, 202213 min
One-third of Canadian kids don’t understand or question the Holocaust, new survey shows
Jan 26, 202214 min
How Ashley Waxman Bakshi leapt from beauty tips to the frontlines of Israel's digital information war
Jan 25, 2022
Jewish public servants are calling out antisemitism in Ottawa's corridors of power
Jan 24, 202213 min
An exit interview with Karen Mock of JSpaceCanada
Jan 20, 202218 min
Public Safety Minister pledges to move ‘urgently’ to speed up funds for Canadian Jewish institutions
Jan 19, 202213 min
The United Church angers Canadian rabbis with its new proposed Mideast policy
Jan 18, 202217 min
Canadian institutions brace themselves after the Colleyville hostage situation
Jan 17, 202216 min
Back on dry land: Canada’s first seafaring Jewish military chaplain reflects on four months on the Pacific
Jan 13, 202217 min
One man's journey from Montreal day school to Chief Rabbi in the UAE
Jan 12, 202216 min
Thousands of birds have died at an Israeli wetland with a Canadian connection
Jan 11, 202215 min
Faced with more school shutdowns in Ontario, Jewish parents are fighting back
Jan 10, 202216 min
Modern diets are making us fat: A Canadian author explains food cravings
Jan 6, 202214 min
One step closer to a cure for Alzheimer's? A Canadian expert weighs in
Jan 5, 202217 min
Fighting antisemitism and learning to skate: An interview with Israel's new Canadian ambassador
Jan 4, 202215 min
Sing along to these COVID-themed parody songs
Jan 3, 202212 min
COVID in 2022: Canada's new observantly Jewish medical officer of health explains what's to come
Dec 27, 202118 min
Canada should stay out of Bill 21, Quebec Jewish leader warns
Dec 22, 202111 min
Alone in the Holy Land: Life as a Canadian IDF lone soldier
Dec 21, 202117 min
"A fire waiting to happen": Canada’s hardest-hit Jewish senior’s home braces for Omicron
Dec 20, 202115 min
This kids' book wiped Israel off the map. Now it's wiped off Indigo bookshelves
Dec 16, 202110 min
After the Alexandra Lulka fiasco, what's next for the TDSB?
Dec 15, 202113 min
Meet the woman at the centre of Jewish life in Abu Dhabi: Canada's ambassador
Dec 14, 2021
"A true salesman committed to selling Toronto": Remembering Mel Lastman
Dec 13, 202117 min
Unpacking the bizarre case of Alexandra Lulka vs. the TDSB
Dec 9, 202113 min
Ruth Wisse on her new memoir, campus antisemitism and our abundance of Holocaust memorials
Dec 8, 2021
This Jewish journalist was embedded with the Wet'suwet'en—then the RCMP arrested him
Dec 7, 202114 min
Welcome to Disraeli, Que., where the post office says Hanukkah is never over
Dec 6, 202111 min
Hanukkah (mostly not) on the Hill: Over 400 people gather virtually for Parliament's first national candle-lighting ceremony
Dec 2, 202111 min
Flying south: Why snowbirds are flocking back to Florida this season
Dec 1, 202110 min
They don't have a shul or rabbi, but PEI's few dozen Jews just celebrated their first public Hanukkah ceremony
Nov 30, 202111 min