Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKlezmer fans and Deadheads: How Ashkenaz Festival is merging musical styles this summer
This interview originally aired on Culturally Jewish_, The CJN's podcast covering Canadian Jewish arts and culture. Hear the full episode and subscri…
2 years, 10 months ago
How Montrealer Josh Sokol won North America’s biggest Scrabble tournament
This interview originally aired on Menschwarmers_, The CJN's podcast about Jews and sports. Hear the full episode and subscribe at thecjn.ca/menschwa…
2 years, 10 months ago
A message from The CJN Daily team
As some of you may already know, last week, Evan Friedlan passed away at 23—the youngest son of The CJN Daily host Ellin Bessner. For now, our show w…
2 years, 11 months ago
Despite a victorious court ruling, women are still second-class citizens at the Western Wall
There were whistles and angry shouts of “Go back to New York” and “Get Lost” last Wednesday at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, as a group of observant…
2 years, 11 months ago
Monte Kwinter, record-breaking politician who ‘championed’ the Jewish community, dies at 92
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, July 25, for Monte Kwinter, the long-serving Toronto politician who set the record as the oldest sitting MPP i…
2 years, 11 months ago
France’s Chief Rabbi on visit to Canada downplays threats to Jewish life in his country
On July 24, Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia of France wraps up his hectic weeklong tour of Ontario and Quebec. But it wasn't his first time in the country, o…
2 years, 11 months ago
Preserving the vanished Jewish history of Rouyn-Noranda, a small Quebec town
Rosalie Mednick Nepom and her brother Sol Mednick were born in the mining town of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., and grew up there–the children of a local groc…
2 years, 11 months ago
Louis Slotin, a little-known Canadian, helped build the real-life atomic bombs portrayed in ‘Oppenheimer’
In one of the summer’s buzziest blockbuster films—Oppenheimer, about the real-life Jewish head of the top-secret American wartime Manhattan Project—t…
2 years, 11 months ago
A Canadian Anglican archbishop explains his church’s new policy on Israel’s treatment of Palestinians
As The CJN Daily _reported earlier this week, the Anglican Church of Canada adopted a strongly worded resolution condemning what its members believe …
2 years, 11 months ago
Canada’s Anglican church removes prayer about converting Jews, but takes one-sided stance on Israel-Palestine issue
As you may have heard, the church representing over one million Anglicans in Canada has voted to formally replace an old prayer calling for the conve…
2 years, 11 months ago