Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDrumming, chanting, climate change: Canada's Jewish Renewal movement is growing
With the three-week-long Jewish holiday season behind us, Ralph Benmergui, the well-known TV and radio personality—and former podcaster with The CJN—…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Israel’s antisemitism envoy opens up about why she quit—and what comes next
On Sept. 29—the same day that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, joined U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington to announce the 20-point …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Why this Oct. 7, Kingston’s Jewish community built a sukkah outside City Hall
Kingston’s small Jewish community celebrated the return of the hostages earlier this week, just hours after they took down their large blue-and-white…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
With Israeli hostages set to return, Canadian Oct. 7 victims’ families are still seeking justice
Jacqui Vital has a simple message for the anxious families of the 48 remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza, who are set to be released this week: “I’m g…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
‘When I tell the story, it is therapeutic’: These Canadians are still on the front lines, 2 years after Oct. 7
Shye Klein and Joy Frenkiel hadn’t met before last week. But they share some common traits: both are dual Canadian-Israeli citizens, and both are sti…
9 months ago
Barry Avrich vows to help rebuild kibbutz on Gaza border as ‘The Road Between Us’ releases in theatres
The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, a documentary about an Israeli couple driving across the country on Oct. 7 to save their children from Hama…
9 months ago
This reporter made a film about his father’s dying days, turning grief into love
It’s been five years since Mitch Consky, now The CJN’s Local Journalism Initiative campus reporter, watched his father be diagnosed with a rare form …
9 months, 1 week ago
Why this acclaimed Indigenous leader opposes Canada’s recognition of Palestinian statehood
Retired Ontario Justice Harry LaForme isn’t entirely comfortable with the label of “ally,” which many Jewish leaders have been using to describe him …
9 months, 1 week ago
Mensch of Steel? Comic books are on the curriculum at this synagogue’s Sunday school
When Sunday Hebrew school classes begin on Oct. 5 at Toronto’s Beth Radom Congregation, the students won’t be punished for reading comic books in cla…
9 months, 1 week ago
Ottawa’s new hate crime laws ‘a step in the right direction’, Jewish leaders say
On Sept. 19, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government unveiled a series of planned changes to Canada’s criminal code. They, in part, crack down on the…
9 months, 2 weeks ago