Podcast Episodes

Meet the COVID survivor who threw the first pitch at a historic Blue Jays game

Jeffrey Freedman was working for a Toronto tile company when the pandemic hit. The office was deemed an essential service, so Freedman kept going int…

4 years, 10 months ago

KlezKanada and Ashkenaz Festival: How Zoom is helping to revive Jewish folk music in Canada

KlezKanada and the Ashkenaz Festival are some of the largest Jewish and Yiddish arts celebrations in North America, and both are being held mostly vi…

4 years, 10 months ago

Greatest Hits: Remembering Iraq's Farhud and Argentina's AMIA bombing

As The CJN Daily continues its brief summer hiatus, we're bringing subscribers another compilation of some of our favourite stories.

Today, two epis…

4 years, 10 months ago

Christie Pits Riot: 88 years since Canada’s worst race riot

The worst race riot in Canadian history happened on a Toronto baseball field exactly 88 years ago today. Just a few months after Adolf Hitler came to…

4 years, 10 months ago

Greatest Hits: The Indigenous-Jewish connection

While The CJN Daily is on a week-long summer vacation, we're bringing you some of our favourite stories from the past few months.

Today, enjoy a com…

4 years, 10 months ago

Canada's first COVID-era Birthright trip, and a short CJN Daily break

The CJN Daily will be taking a brief summer vacation for the next week, returning on Aug. 23.

In the meantime, we have a semi-new episode: here's a r…

4 years, 10 months ago

This UN agency has an anti-Israel problem. So why does Canada keep funding it?

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East, better known as UNRWA, provides health care and education for m…

4 years, 10 months ago

Canada unveils new statue to Anne Frank on anniversary of her arrest

On Aug. 8, 2021, officials in Edmonton unveiled the first sculpture of Anne Frank anywhere in Canada. The world’s newest memorial to her—a life-sized…

4 years, 10 months ago

Celebrating the Japanese Schindler who saved thousands of Jewish lives

Eighty years ago this summer, in July 1941, Nate and Susan Bluman stepped off a boat in Vancouver's port. It had been a perilous journey for the youn…

4 years, 11 months ago

Record price expected for this rare WW1 poster made just for Canadian Jews

For 25 years, Nicholas D. Lowry has been one of the experts on the PBS program Antiques Roadshow, where everyday folks bring old furniture, trinkets …

4 years, 11 months ago