Podcast Episodes

Police confirm even more mezuzahs were stolen from Toronto seniors’ complex. Leaders think the number’s even higher

Toronto police, investigating the suspected hate-motivated theft of mezuzahs from a seniors apartment complex over the weekend, now tell The CJN they…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

What's behind the recent flare ups of Holocaust denial in Poland?

Over the last two weeks, the Polish government has been doubling down on its official narrative that, during the Second World War, its own people wer…

7 months ago

A Hallmark movie gone wrong? How a glass-breaking accident took this groom from chuppah to hospital

“We had a beautiful wedding. Wish you could have been there!”

That’s what Shawna Magence quipped to her new husband, Steven Weiss, about three weeks …

7 months ago

'We weren't complete until all the hostages returned home': Ottawa seniors launch book of Oct. 7 feelings

Nearly 40 handwritten letters by a group of Ottawa seniors have made their way into a unique new publication documenting the impact of Oct. 7 over th…

7 months ago

Four Israeli leaders are coming to Canada to debate the two-state solution. Meet the 'no" side.

Former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, a diplomat and former member of the Israeli Knesset, says he has always refused to do public “gladitorial” de…

7 months, 1 week ago

How Israeli Rabbi Leo Dee rebuilt his life, with Canadian help, after Hamas killed wife, two daughters

After Hamas terrorists gunned down Rabbi Leo Dee’s wife Lucy and two of their daughters, Maia and Rina, during a family outing in the West Bank in Ap…

7 months, 1 week ago

New Quebec law coming to ban public prayers, prayer rooms on campus, in wider secularism push

Quebec’s nationalist government is expected to table yet another bill later this week that will go even further to take religion out of provincial in…

7 months, 1 week ago

[From the archives] Meet the real rabbi who starred in Drake’s controversial new music video

While host Ellin Bessner is on vacation, we're bringing you an episode from the archives of our show. This episode originally aired 06/20/2022.

For t…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

[In Good Faith] How a Palestinian and a Jewish Canadian are trying to depolarize the country

This episode originally aired on The CJN's peace-building podcast, In Good Faith. To subscribe and hear more, visit thecjn.ca/faith.

Mainstream Jews,…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Catching up on the Sherman murder mystery [From the archives]

While host Ellin Bessner is on vacation, we're bringing you an episode from the archives of our show. This episode originally aired February 13, 2023…

7 months, 2 weeks ago