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If you're a Jewish Canadian wondering whether it's time to create a Plan B in the USA, you do not have to figure it out alone.

It's time to create optionality for yourself, for your family, and for your future, just as I did.

Their membership was cancelled, and so the couple sued.

The CJN's North Star producer, Izzy Hellenchild, was in the courtroom on October 7th.

She's here to discuss what she heard, what the judge said, and what happens next.

Welcome, it's good to have you.

Okay.

And it used to be in the North End.

And then in recent years, we've covered it at the CJN, the synagogue moved onto the South Side into a very Jewish neighborhood, closer to where the community now is based.

Yeah.

And then there's Vancouver's newly elected city council and the school board, who are now dominated by politicians who signed a pro-Palestine, anti-Israel campaign pledge.

So what does this all mean for Canada's Jewish community? Our CJN political panel is back with some of the answers.

We're not looking for candidates who are going to make an issue of Israel, of anti-Semitism.

We're just looking for candidates who are going to concentrate on, you know, having good roads, transit, a safe city.

Welcome to Northstar, the flagship podcast of the Canadian Jewish News, and made possible thanks to the Ira Gluskin and Maxine Grunowski-Gluskin Charitable Foundation.

With so many elections and ballots, we can't possibly count all that's going on.

But we're going to bring in the CJN's political panel to try to make sense of it in this episode.

And joining us now are Dan Mader.

And...

We are also talking about Rachel Cusk's latest novel, Life of M, which I shall be reviewing for the CJN, for the Canadian Jewish News.

You may ask why.

I will say because Natalie Portman's Jewish, though this is not mentioned in the novel, which is in fact not true.

So instead, we are bringing you the latest episode of Menschwarmers.

That's the CJN's Jewish sports podcast.

It's a great episode all about the biggest Jewish stars in the NHL making an impact this season.

It's a hockey preview with Jonny Lazarus, a great Jewish hockey commentator.

Then last fall, three more.

Then two more this year, according to the Canadian Jewish News.

Now, I've read the CRA's reasons, control over money sent abroad, receipting problems, funding that touched the Israeli military.

Those are real rules, and the CRA is allowed to enforce them.

I mean, it is amazing.

Uh, so the first time I spoke out about this, it was on a podcast with Canadian Jewish News, and my thought was like, "Oh, I'm just tip- dipping my toe in the water.

Like, I'm not even Canadian.

This is so tiny," right? Forgetting that the internet is the internet.

However, for all of our listeners in unincorporated hamlets, you'll have to wait until December.

Today on the show, CJN reporter Zenith Wolfe speaks to outgoing trustee Shelley Laskin about her almost quarter-century tenure in public service, the importance of having school trustees who represent the will of, and are accountable to, voters, and what challenges she sees for school boards going forward.

I'm Zach Kaufman, sitting in for Ellen Bezner, and this is what Jewish Canada sounds like for Wednesday, October fourteenth, twenty twenty-six.

Welcome to North Star, a podcast of the Canadian Jewish News, made possible thanks to the Ira Gluskin and Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foundation.

[upbeat music] And that's what Jewish Canada sounds like for today's episode of North Star, made possible thanks to the Ira Gluskin and Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foundation.

Our production team includes myself, Helen Bezner, and Izzy Helenchild.

Michael Fraiman is our executive producer, and Alicia Richler is the CJN's editorial director.

Thanks so much for listening.

And then on September 29th, it got a lot worse.

The National Post published a column by Yoni Goldstein, who's the former editor-in-chief and CEO of the Canadian Jewish News.

And this column was a thinly veiled call for the assassination of Avi Lewis.

The column is titled, quote, Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi Lewis.