Podcast Episodes

[Greatest Hits] After escaping the Jasper forest fires, this tourist couple found safety in the Jewish community

This episode originally aired Aug. 7, 2024.

Sharon Chodirker and Chaim Bell consider themselves lucky: they were among the tens of thousands of tour…

4 hours ago

[Greatest Hits] The best country for Jews to live in is... Canada?

Ellin Bessner is off on a well-deserved summer vacation, so we're bringing back some favourite episodes from the archives. This episode originally ra…

2 days, 4 hours ago

Inside Canada's Human Rights museum's Palestinian Nakba exhibit: What we saw

There’s been a major new development in the controversy surrounding the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ new Nakba exhibit.

Canada’s Minister of Ca…

5 days ago

From homesteaders to high tech: How Jewish Calgary celebrates Stampede

When people think of the Calgary Stampede, they probably picture rodeos, chuckwagon races, the famous parade, or perhaps deep-fried Mars bars on the …

1 week, 2 days ago

Canada's next generation of Jewish leaders is already making a difference

Over the past school year, The Canadian Jewish News' Local Journalism Initiative reporter, Mitch Consky, who covers education, has introduced readers…

1 week, 5 days ago

The Human Rights museum's only Jewish trustee wanted the Nakba Exhibit. He just quit

Mark Berlin initially supported the Canadian Museum for Human Rights creating a Nakba exhibit on the experiences of Palestinian Canadians displaced d…

2 weeks ago

What we know about the deadly Montreal shootings that shook a Jewish neighbourhood

A police officer and a Jewish civilian have been killed after a gunman opened fire in a deadly ambush that unfolded Monday mid-morning June 22 in one…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

A synagogue heard local schoolchildren were hungry. They've delivered 7,000 lunches

“I didn’t know there was a need.”

Two years ago, Dr. Irv Siegel, a past president of Beit Rayim Synagogue in Vaughan, Ont., heard about growing food …

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Extremist settlers 'threaten' Israeli society, President Herzog warned. This Canadian activist flew to witness for herself

Last month, during a ceremony to award the Jerusalem Unity Prize, Israeli President Isaac Herzog greeted the audience with a warning about “a terrib…

2 weeks, 5 days ago

Montreal rabbi says 'I'll eat my kippah' if firebomb attack wasn't deliberate hate crime

On June 17, the suspect caught and charged in connection with breaking a window, then setting fire to Montreal’s Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom, is sche…

3 weeks ago