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Back to Search[From the archives] Struggling to afford your first home? This Jewish-backed investment firm wants to help
This episode originally aired Oct. 15, 2024.
On the night of Oct. 16, 2024, Jews around Canada welcomed the holiday of Sukkot, having erected tempor…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Their Jewish-Muslim friendship was destroyed after Oct. 7—until they found a way to reconcile
While host Ellin Bessner is on vacation, we're bringing you some highlights from other podcasts produced by The CJN. Today: The second episode of our…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Untold Jewish WWII and IDF veterans' stories revealed in new nonfiction book
Mickey Heller wasn't eager to open up about his Second World War military service. But his grandson, Aron Heller, a journalist and contributor to The…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Untouched for decades, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor's memoir is now a Canadian podcast series
Twenty years ago, when Ilanit-Michele Woods urged her grandmother Olga Fisch to write down her memoirs of life in Hungary before and after the Holoca…
8 months ago
Israeli journalist Lahav Harkov explains life in post-ceasefire Israel
While host Ellin Bessner is on vacation, we're bringing you some highlights from other podcasts produced by The CJN. Today: The most recent episode o…
8 months ago
Why Jewish heroine Hannah Senesh is having her moment of renewed interest
The name Hannah Senesh is a household legend for many Israelis, and also for Diaspora Jews of a certain generation–especially those who attended Jewi…
8 months ago
Honourable Menschen: Her paper heart from Auschwitz remains a powerful symbol of Holocaust survival
Fania Fainer’s friends risked their lives to celebrate her 20th birthday in a forced labour factory in Auschwitz, fashioning a tiny ersatz cake along…
8 months, 1 week ago
'Edgy for a rabbi, clean for a comedian': Meet the Orthodox rabbi comic mocking antisemites onstage
Rabbi David Rotenberg got his first break performing jokes when he was 15 years old, in 1998. He had to rush out of his yeshiva’s Talmud class to get…
8 months, 1 week ago
Support group Ha'ikar offers a 'brave space' for young Canadian Jews post Oct. 7
"On a scale of one to 10, how afraid are you?"
That's a conversation starter for the new youth discussion forum Ha'ikar, founded by two Toronto frien…
8 months, 1 week ago
A famous Jewish pilot's vintage plane could be scrapped. This man is on a mission to save it
Louis Helbig, of Sydney, N.S., has been racing against time trying to find a solution and a good home for what he describes as the Trans-Atlantic Lus…
8 months, 2 weeks ago