Podcast Episodes

This 4-year-old got his dream birthday party—at a Metro grocery store in Picton, Ont.

Lev Goldfarb may not realize it, but getting his parents to throw him a birthday party in a Picton, Ont., grocery store was good for the Jews.

Not o…

3 years, 5 months ago

‘This is the direction we want Judaism to move’: a Canadian Orthodox rabbi’s Tu B’Shevat call to save the environment

As the annual Tu B’Shevat festival takes place Monday, Feb. 6, the yearly observance—which some consider the Jewish Earth Day—was marked over the wee…

3 years, 5 months ago

A spiritual conversation with the young Hollywood horror movie writer who used to watch Jewish bodies before they were buried in Toronto

Hanina Hoffman originally didn’t want to accept the offer to write a Hollywood horror flick with a Jewish theme. But he changed his mind once he real…

3 years, 5 months ago

Toronto’s Reena agency turns 50 facing middle-aged challenges of caring for older residents with disabilities

Reena was born in 1973 because a handful of Jewish parents in Toronto wanted to keep their disabled children in the community—rather than putting the…

3 years, 5 months ago

YidLife Crisis explain why they translated their very Jewish humour into Chinese (and French, too!)

The popular Montreal comedy duo YidLife Crisis is betting that their humour could have even greater worldwide appeal if what they’re saying was more …

3 years, 5 months ago

University of Toronto held a private event to help Jews heal from antisemitism. Two attendees reveal what happens in a ‘restorative circle’

In the wake of the damning report by Dr. Ayelet Kuper about antisemitism at the University of Toronto’s Temerty medical school, the UofT’s anti-racis…

3 years, 5 months ago

Take our 15-minute audio tour of Winnipeg’s redesigned Holocaust Education Centre

Winnipeg's Holocaust Education Centre is Canada's smallest, at 1,000 square feet. You could park about five cars in it, side by side. And since the p…

3 years, 5 months ago

Shining a new light on Rudolf Vrba, the Canadian who escaped from Auschwitz

When he was 19 years old, a Slovakian Jewish teenaged slave labourer named Walter Rosenberg (later he changed his name to Rudolf Vrba) did what only …

3 years, 5 months ago

Remembering the late Rabbi Bernard Baskin, 102, and other 'Honourable Menschen'

From one of the Jewish community's longest serving rabbis, Bernard Baskin of Hamilton–whose funeral was Sunday, he Jan. 22— to the musical composer …

3 years, 5 months ago

Why is Israel's ambassador to Canada quitting his job?

Ronen Hoffman arrived in Ottawa to be Israel’s new ambassador to Canada in November 2021, full of big plans. But after just a year in office, Hoffman…

3 years, 5 months ago