Podcast Episodes

Afghanistan's last Jewish family just fled the country. Their dream home? Canada

Tova Moradi is in her late 70s. After the Taliban came to power and threatened to stone her, one of the last remaining Jews in Afghanistan, she knew …

4 years, 8 months ago

Steven Spielberg's Holocaust project is back, and looking for more Canadian survivors

Back in the 1990s, after directing Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg kickstarted a global effort to film the testimony of as many Holocuast survivor…

4 years, 8 months ago

Why Naomi Rosenfeld, head of Atlantic Canada’s Jewish community, is moving back to Toronto

The Atlantic Jewish Council is unique in North America, as the only federation that deals with Jews who live in different cities—even across provinci…

4 years, 8 months ago

Braving blazing heat, Canadians are hiking the Israeli desert for charity

When hostilities broke out in May between Israel and Hamas, 13 Israelis were killed and more than 300 others were wounded. Staff from OneFamily, an I…

4 years, 8 months ago

The world’s first female rabbi finally gets her moment, 350 years after her death

On Oct. 17, at the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards, Montrealer Sigal Samuel won an award for her new children’s book, Osnat and Her Dove: The True St…

4 years, 8 months ago

Wacky Mac vanished from Canadian grocery shelves and Jews are freaking out

Over the past few weeks, Canadian grocery stores in Jewish neighbourhoods have been ravaged by a bizarre calamity: they're all out of Wacky Mac. From…

4 years, 8 months ago

Safe houses and smuggled passports: Inside the sprawling Israeli-Canadian effort to rescue a second group of Afghan women

On Oct. 2, a plane of Afghan refugees touched down in Albania after a five-day journey. The group included 120 women—police officers, judges, cyclist…

4 years, 8 months ago

At 13, he got an Apple Watch. At 14, he built a daily prayer app for it

The latest Apple Watch is being released worldwide this week. With it, you can monitor your blood oxygen levels, send emails, wear it while swimming—…

4 years, 8 months ago

Why this Jewish YouTube star ran for the PPC in Montreal

In the recent election, David Freiheit stood out as arguably the most popular candidate running for the People's Party of Canada—apart from its leade…

4 years, 8 months ago

Memorial for 1950 garment factory fire strives for closure—but also opens old wounds

On Oct. 6, in a downtown park in Toronto, a ceremony was held to unveil a new plaque commemorating the Phillips garment factory fire of 1950.

The pla…

4 years, 9 months ago