Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFive ways to tackle anti-Semitism
July 14 was a hectic day for Jews looking for ways to combat anti-Semitism: there were at least three large-scale events held on the subject within 2…
4 years, 11 months ago
TikTok star Josh Zilberberg dishes on his Canadian Jewish roots
If you haven’t heard of Josh Zilberberg, you're clearly not one of his nearly 2 million followers on TikTok, nor one of his 438,000 Instagram followe…
4 years, 11 months ago
Israel’s forgotten fighters: Two Canadians who served in Israel's 1948 war
In 1947 and '48, thousands of foreign military personnel—including 300 from Canada—flew to the emerging State of Israel to fight for its survival aga…
4 years, 11 months ago
El Al is flying to Toronto again, but are Canadians ready to travel?
Israel's national airline, El Al, halted flights to Canada when the pandemic broke out globally in March 2020. But more than a year later, on June 28…
4 years, 11 months ago
New film reaches back generations to share Holocaust refugees' story
Max Shoham has been making movies since he was a little boy growing up in Toronto. This month, the 18-year-old's most ambitious project—an animated s…
5 years ago
Canada's Schindler: Meet the man who gave 79 Jewish orphans a new life on Canadian soil
Few Canadians know the name Morris Saxe. He was a Jewish dairy farmer who lived in Georgetown, Ontario, having moved to Canada in 1902. He was a hard…
5 years ago
What did Marc Garneau accomplish in his trip to Israel?
Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marc Garneau, became the first foreign minister to visit Israel since Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s governme…
5 years ago
Meet the Montreal Canadiens’ famous Jewish trumpet player
Once upon a time, when the Montreal Canadiens still played at the Forum, their unofficial team mascot was a trumpet-blowing super fan known as Kid Me…
5 years ago
What's Canada Day like for new Jewish immigrants?
Etel Ergun Avimelek hasn't been able to meet very many people in Winnipeg yet. They arrived just last summer from Turkey, hoping to escape rising ant…
5 years ago
Charles Bronfman at 90: On Israel, anti-Semitism, the diaspora and Donald Trump
It’s not every day that the Israel Philharmonic performs private birthday concerts from the stage of the Charles Bronfman Auditorium in Tel Aviv. But…
5 years ago