Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDespite ‘flawed’ reports of record-high antisemitism incidents, new study says most Canadians actually like Jews
According to Robert Brym, a sociology professor at the University of Toronto, while two-thirds of Canada’s Jews currently feel unsafe and victimized …
2 years, 2 months ago
This year’s March of the Living commemoration marred by ‘Stop the Genocide’ protests
Organizers of the 36th annual March of the Living commemoration, in Poland, knew that this year’s three-kilometre walk at Auschwitz would feel even m…
2 years, 2 months ago
This Canadian Holocaust survivor’s ‘ordinary’ life included blowing up Nazi trains and fighting a wolf
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Vancouver Holocaust speaker Rubin Pinsky fled a Nazi work camp in May 1942 and survived for more than two years in the forests of Poland, …
2 years, 2 months ago
Pro-Palestinian tent protests have spilled onto Canadian campuses. What happens next?
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At least five Canadian university campuses are now home to temporary tent cities erected by pro-Palestinian students protesting Israel’s …
2 years, 2 months ago
How 3rd grader Daniel Marquez became a world JewQ champion—beating thousands of Hebrew school students
The youngest child traditionally asks the Four Questions at Passover. But Daniel Marquez, 8, of Mississauga, Ont., could probably have answered all t…
2 years, 2 months ago
Paul Finlayson made fiery pro-Israel comments after Oct. 7. Then his university suspended him
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It’s coming up on five months since Paul Finlayson, a business instructor in the Toronto area, was suspended from teaching at the Universi…
2 years, 2 months ago
Meet the Klezbians, the invite-only, music-playing group holding annual queer seders in B.C.
It’s going to be a special Passover seder this year in Victoria, B.C. for The Klezbians, an all-woman musical group that performs Klezmer music. They…
2 years, 2 months ago
20-year-old student Ruby Grinberg wants to be the second-ever Jewish Miss Canada
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In just a few weeks, Ruby Grinberg will be packing her red ball gown and heading to Montreal to compete in the 2024 Miss Canada competiti…
2 years, 2 months ago
What’s making the kosher meat at the Passover seder different this year?
The week before Passover is always a busy time for supermarkets’ kosher meat sections. But this year, the meat you’ll find is likely different, becau…
2 years, 2 months ago
Hear a Canadian in Israel describe living through the Iranian missile attack
A delegation of 17 Canadians from British Columbia spent an anxious Saturday night hunkered down in Tel Aviv, watching the skies and waiting for air …
2 years, 2 months ago