Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHear how Ottawa’s public school board decided to finally take formal action against antisemitism
Lisa Levitan founded the Jewish Educators Group to help Ottawa-Carleton District School Board staffers like herself cope with increasing hatred. The …
3 years, 5 months ago
Remembering war veteran Jerry Gross, 96, who served with Machal in Israel’s first struggle for survival
Funeral services were held Jan. 17 in Montreal for 96-year-old Joseph “Jerry” Gross, one of the last surviving Canadian veterans of Israel’s War of I…
3 years, 5 months ago
'Early bird' dinners and bathing caps: Miami Beach's previous generation of Jewish snowbirds remembered
Before it became the glamorous playground of rich celebrities—and before Lincoln Road Mall’s humble shops were replaced by designer boutiques—Miami B…
3 years, 5 months ago
A swoosh and a schmear: Nike launches Montreal bagel-inspired sneakers
Nike may have issued the deciding word in the long standing debate about which city makes the best bagels in the world: the footwear company’s latest…
3 years, 5 months ago
Montreal kosher meat store J&R abruptly closed after 70 years. The reasons why were complicated
Sidney Nemes hasn’t been able to take more than a long weekend off work in decades of running his family’s kosher meat business in Montreal. But this…
3 years, 5 months ago
Cyberfrumenism: Why these ultra-Orthodox women singers are going viral—against the wishes of some rabbis
A much-anticipated concert in London, England by singer Bracha Jaffe on Sunday, Jan. 15, has raised the ire of some of that city’s rabbis—even though…
3 years, 5 months ago
How a plate of herring is the secret to Jewish unity
There’s something fishy about 21-year-old Jeremy Urbach, who runs Gishmak Herring. It’s a YouTube channel dedicated to reviewing forage fish. (Gishma…
3 years, 5 months ago
10 ideas to save a broken Canada—from the Jewish policy expert who says 2023 will be ‘brutish and nasty’
Irvin Studin used to be a professional soccer player, and the policy expert, academic and think-tank head likes sporting terminology. Which means, in…
3 years, 6 months ago
The CJN: Where we’ve been and where we’re heading next—and how you can help in 2023
When Canada went into COVID lockdown in March 2020, the weekly newspaper version of The Canadian Jewish News also stopped publishing, shortly afterwa…
3 years, 6 months ago
Why this Ottawa artist turns her broken glass menorahs into grave-marker stones
Marie Levine started creating fused glass menorahs in Ottawa after discovering her synagogue’s gift shop stocked only the traditional pressed-metal d…
3 years, 6 months ago