North Star with Ellin Bessner
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KlezKanada and Ashkenaz Festival: How Zoom is helping to revive Jewish folk music in Canada
Aug 23, 202114 min
Greatest Hits: Remembering Iraq's Farhud and Argentina's AMIA bombing
Aug 17, 20219 min
Christie Pits Riot: 88 years since Canada’s worst race riot
Aug 16, 202112 min
Greatest Hits: The Indigenous-Jewish connection
Aug 12, 202112 min
Canada's first COVID-era Birthright trip, and a short CJN Daily break
Aug 11, 202111 min
This UN agency has an anti-Israel problem. So why does Canada keep funding it?
Aug 10, 202111 min
Canada unveils new statue to Anne Frank on anniversary of her arrest
Aug 9, 202111 min
Celebrating the Japanese Schindler who saved thousands of Jewish lives
Aug 5, 202113 min
Record price expected for this rare WW1 poster made just for Canadian Jews
Aug 4, 2021
Edmonton Heritage Festival still celebrates Israel, despite antisemitism and COVID
Aug 3, 2021
"I was called a F—ing Jew and shoved into a fence": Why Sam Brody is fighting back
Aug 2, 202111 min
Matt Abergel: Running a Michelin-star Hong Kong restaurant during the pandemic
Jul 29, 202114 min
Meet the Jewish woman living in the path of B.C.'s largest forest fire
Jul 28, 202112 min
Can international pressure stop the Sheikh Jarrah evictions?
Jul 27, 202112 min
Will Canadian snowbirds be able to travel south this winter?
Jul 26, 2021
Key takeaways from the National Summit on Antisemitism
Jul 22, 202112 min
Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a friend
Jul 21, 202111 min
This Canadian clown channels Judaism to cheer up hospital patients
Jul 20, 202110 min
Still demanding justice: 27 years since Argentina’s largest unsolved terror attack
Jul 19, 202111 min
Five ways to tackle anti-Semitism
Jul 15, 202111 min
TikTok star Josh Zilberberg dishes on his Canadian Jewish roots
Jul 14, 202112 min
Israel’s forgotten fighters: Two Canadians who served in Israel's 1948 war
Jul 13, 202115 min
El Al is flying to Toronto again, but are Canadians ready to travel?
Jul 12, 202111 min
New film reaches back generations to share Holocaust refugees' story
Jul 8, 2021
Canada's Schindler: Meet the man who gave 79 Jewish orphans a new life on Canadian soil
Jul 7, 202112 min
What did Marc Garneau accomplish in his trip to Israel?
Jul 6, 202110 min
Meet the Montreal Canadiens’ famous Jewish trumpet player
Jul 5, 2021
What's Canada Day like for new Jewish immigrants?
Jul 1, 202114 min
Charles Bronfman at 90: On Israel, anti-Semitism, the diaspora and Donald Trump
Jun 30, 202117 min
Massive crowds gather to remember Rabbi Bulka
Jun 29, 202112 min
Miami-Dade condo collapse: What comes next?
Jun 28, 202110 min
Reflections on high school graduation from the COVID Class of 2021
Jun 24, 202112 min
Pride Month: Why Canada’s blood donation ban for gay men matters for Jews
Jun 23, 202111 min
Canada’s Oldest Person: Cecile Klein marks 114 years
Jun 22, 20219 min
Meet the Jewish artist painting Holocaust and residential school survivors
Jun 21, 202113 min
Why are so many Canadian rabbis leaving their jobs this year?
Jun 17, 202112 min
Israel’s new leader has a Canadian connection—and plenty of challenges
Jun 16, 202113 min
Coping with loss and optimism: One Chabad rabbi's reflections on COVID
Jun 15, 202111 min
Irwin Cotler: Canada needs action, not words, to combat anti-Semitism
Jun 14, 202111 min
No, lockdown is nothing like Anne Frank hiding during the Holocaust
Jun 11, 202112 min
One Canadian's quest to identify 861 unknown Israeli soldiers
Jun 10, 2021
How London's Jews are helping their Muslim neighbours
Jun 9, 202110 min
One year since George Floyd's death: What's changed for Jews of colour?
Jun 8, 202112 min
Recognizing the Canadian Jewish Women of WW2
Jun 7, 202110 min
Ya'ara Saks on Jewish emancipation and modern challenges
Jun 4, 202111 min
Honouring Ruth Goldbloom, an unsung hero of Pier 21
Jun 3, 20219 min
Mourning in Kamloops: How has the local Jewish community reacted?
Jun 2, 20219 min
Stories from Iraq's most famous pogrom: Farhud's 80th anniversary
Jun 1, 202110 min
The best country for Jews to live in is... Canada?
May 31, 2021
What's the future of Jewish life in Saskatoon?
May 28, 20219 min