Podcast Episodes

The CJN’s Honourable Menschen returns to honour Jewish Canadians we recently lost from the world of arts

Ben Ben Chimol, 17, is the youngest person we have profiled on The CJN Daily‘s Honourable Menschen series, where we pay tribute to prominent members …

3 years, 3 months ago

What’s so great about Montreal winters? Ezra Soiferman’s new film captures the beauty of Snowbec

Montreal filmmaker Ezra Soiferman loves the winters in his native city so much, he’s made a new film about them, called Montreal, Snowbec. It’s a lov…

3 years, 3 months ago

This Toronto rabbi says Canadian Jews must support Israel and stop criticizing her politics in public

Rabbi Daniel Korobkin leads one of Canada's largest Orthodox synagogues: Beth Avraham Yoseph, known as The BAYT, in Thornhill, Ont. In recent weeks, …

3 years, 3 months ago

Lenka Lichtenberg just won a Juno with her grandmother’s Holocaust poems

It might be the first time that Holocaust poems have made it to the top of Canada’s most famous music award, the Junos. The poems were written in 194…

3 years, 3 months ago

A conversation with Canada’s oldest Conservative rabbi, Erwin Schild, on the occasion of his 103rd birthday

Adath Israel's emeritus rabbi, Erwin Schild, turns 103 on Mar. 9.

Schild, who proudly lives in the same Toronto home he bought soon after he first to…

3 years, 4 months ago

Why this doctor wants women to go for breast cancer screening at age 40, not wait 'til 50

Dr. Paula Gordon, of Vancouver, is a renowned Canadian radiologist and breast cancer specialist. She also recently became a recipient of the Order of…

3 years, 4 months ago

Why this Oshawa man is calling out the three Conservative MPs who met with far-right German politician

The leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Poilievre, will not take further action to sanction three members of parliament who posed for …

3 years, 4 months ago

After hamantashen, the only kosher bakery on Vancouver Island is making its mark—with a challah-donut

My Way Bikery, the only kosher bakery in Victoria, B.C., will of course be selling traditional Purim hamantashen cookies for the rest of March. But M…

3 years, 4 months ago

Meet the Canadian who just won Israel’s top science prize for his diabetes-treatment breakthrough

Dr. Daniel J. Drucker was sitting in his research lab at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital when his name was announced that he’d won Israel’s Wolf Prize…

3 years, 4 months ago

The only Mikvah between Vancouver and Calgary opens in Kelowna, B.C.

For years, Fraidy Hecht of Kelowna, B.C., had to go to great lengths each month to fulfil the ancient requirement for religious Jewish women to immer…

3 years, 4 months ago