Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCanadian snowbirds are shaken after an alligator killed an 85-year-old woman in their Florida community
Travel agent Jay Mandelker of Toronto never imagined his Florida winter holiday would place him at the centre of a rare but horrifying alligator atta…
3 years, 4 months ago
‘The Zionist enterprise is in danger’: Why Charles Bronfman signed an open letter pushing back against Netanyahu
Canadian philanthropist Charles Bronfman is one of 15 signatories to an open letter to Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, which sounds the …
3 years, 4 months ago
Stephen Kaplan’s last motorcycle trip nearly killed him. Here’s how he survived with his wife’s help
Nearly 12 years ago, Toronto business executive Stephen Kaplan took a solo motorcycle trip to Alaska. He promised his worried wife, Danielle, it woul…
3 years, 4 months ago
A new chairlift on a Canadian ski hill is being named The Fenster for two Holocaust survivors who founded Belle Neige
More than 60 years ago, in 1961, Saul Fenster and his older brother, Henry—two Jewish siblings from Poland who had survived the Holocaust—bought a sw…
3 years, 4 months ago
It’s ‘false’ to say Israeli democracy is under attack, according to the Knesset’s new Canadian member
In a relatively short time, Dan Illouz went from being a McGill University law student to sitting in Israel’s Knesset as a member of the ruling Likud…
3 years, 4 months ago
The museum curator behind the new Leonard Cohen exhibit at The AGO gives The CJN a private tour
Sketches on a restaurant napkin, a notebook draft of “Hallelujah”, black and white Polaroid snapshots of his naked chest: the late Canadian singer an…
3 years, 4 months ago
‘Apologies without accountability’ as MPs grill government official over the Laith Marouf scandal
It’s been seven months since the federal government was made aware that it had awarded a lucrative training contract to a known racist and antisemite…
3 years, 4 months ago
An insider’s look at Aroma Espresso Bar’s troubles in Toronto
Philip Kuntz considers himself the first-ever customer of Aroma Espresso Bar’s first-ever Canadian coffee outlet. When the Aroma location opened in 2…
3 years, 4 months ago
The murders of Barry and Honey Sherman get the true crime treatment
More than five years have passed since the still-unsolved murders of philanthropists Barry and Honey Sherman in their Toronto home. Despite a $35-mil…
3 years, 4 months ago
Why Israel’s Aroma Espresso Bar owes $10 million to their original Canadian franchisor—but they’re not paying (yet)
The popular Israeli chain of Aroma Espresso coffee bars is tied up in a three-and-a-half year legal fight with the Toronto business partners who orig…
3 years, 5 months ago