North Star with Ellin Bessner episodes

Israel’s new Toronto consul general says boycotts are not the solutionSep 14, 2026 · 25 minWith Nadav Zysblat
Beth Tzedec, Canada’s largest synagogue, erecting perimeter fence for High HolidaysSep 11, 2026 · 25 minWith Steven Wernick
New Israeli Oct. 7 film about to premiere at TIFF, amid boycott callsSep 9, 2026 · 26 minWith Avi Nesher
Federal court orders Carney government to release more Nazi war criminal documentsSep 4, 2026 · 43 minWith Sam Goldstein, Howard Margolian
Why Toronto’s Orthodox Rabbis won’t officiate at MAID funerals, or provide burial plotsSep 2, 2026 · 31 minWith Jennifer Gorman, Reuben Poupko
CBC changed its terrorism policy for 9/11—but still not for HamasAug 31, 2026 · 24 minWith Brodie Fenlon
Jewish groups 'relieved' after Montreal softens controversial anti-Israel voteAug 28, 2026 · 25 minWith Paola Samuel
Canadian Jewish milk and honey farmers on Trump’s trade war: 'You can’t concede on sovereignty'Aug 26, 2026 · 28 minWith Ben Loewith, Yoav Sasportas, Dave Loewith
Back to school: TanenbaumCHAT and OJCS's two new heads of school on Jewish education, safety and joyAug 24, 2026 · 29 minWith Amy Platt, Laura Segall
Late Holocaust survivor Eva Olsson spoke to over 1.5 million studentsAug 21, 2026 · 13 minWith Eva Olsson
Meet the man who has been chasing the world's best gelato since 2011Aug 19, 2026 · 23 minWith Peter Cohen
B.C. wildfires: Jews open their homes, kitchens and rally to help evacueesAug 17, 2026 · 28 minWith Todd Shapiro, Abbey Westbury, Shmuly Hecht, Tami Bray
Jewish students speak out after landmark campus antisemitism studyAug 14, 2026 · 27 minWith Cary Kogan
Finding their people: How B.C.’s small Jewish communities are growingAug 12, 2026 · 26 minWith Jenny Reznik, Mijal Ben-Dori, Jessica Benoualid
This Canadian soldier waited 109 years for his funeral KaddishAug 10, 2026 · 26 minWith Arnold Noteh Glogauer, Liana Walters
‘In my baseball team, I’m the only Jewish kid’: What the JCC Maccabi Games mean to its athletesAug 7, 2026 · 26 minWith Trevor Mintz, Raphael Surchuk, Ethan Zohn, Elad Alperovitch, Colby Berman, Paul Berman, speaker_15, Eli Rattazzi, Masi Applebaum, Kessler Despain, speaker_7, Asher Friedman, Liam Winterstein
Moncton's Tiferes Israel Synagogue celebrates 100 years with reunion, plans for second centuryAug 5, 2026 · 23 minWith Anne Jockelmann, Sandra Rose, Audrey Lampert
From Toronto to Texas: Why Shloime Zionce is driving his Cybertruck cross-continent on a mitzvah missionJul 31, 2026 · 26 minWith Shloime Zionce
Building Jewish Canada out West: Vancouver's JWest reaches milestone, Edmonton's new JCC well underwayJul 29, 2026 · 27 minWith Alex Cristall, Stacey Leavitt-Wright
Rejected by his parents for being gay, Harvey Brownstone turned pain into a best-selling memoirJul 27, 2026 · 39 minWith Harvey Brownstone
The search for Esti: Inside Shomrim Toronto's biggest mission everJul 24, 2026 · 40 minWith Kevin Menachem Silver, Avi Greenberg
Meet the Canadian now leading one of the world's oldest Jewish women's organizationsJul 22, 2026 · 27 minWith Debbie Wasserman
He survived the Holocaust as a child. Now he has drawn those memoriesJul 20, 2026 · 25 minWith Adam Politzer, Liam Karp, Jamie Michaels
[Greatest Hits] Nautical nachas: This summer, welcome Shabbat on a boat in the LaurentiansJul 17, 2026 · 28 minWith Howard Stotland, Emmanuel Karlebach
[Menschwarmers] Apparently Egypt losing in the World Cup is a Zionist conspiracyJul 15, 2026 · 34 min
[Greatest Hits] Despite a victorious court ruling, women are still second-class citizens at the Western WallJul 13, 2026 · 19 minWith Rowy Lapidus
[Not in Heaven] Do you need to feel hate to commit a hate crime?Jul 10, 2026 · 38 min
[Greatest Hits] After escaping the Jasper forest fires, this tourist couple found safety in the Jewish communityJul 8, 2026 · 28 minWith Sharon Chodirker, Chaim Bell, Dovid Pinson, Heidi Coleman
[Greatest Hits] The best country for Jews to live in is... Canada?Jul 6, 2026 · 11 minWith Yolande Cohen, Morton Weinfeld, Harold Troper
Inside Canada's Human Rights museum's Palestinian Nakba exhibit: What we sawJul 3, 2026 · 34 min
From homesteaders to high tech: How Jewish Calgary celebrates StampedeJun 29, 2026 · 26 minWith David Silver, Sandra Lipton
Canada's next generation of Jewish leaders is already making a differenceJun 26, 2026 · 25 minWith Levi Moskowitz, Anastasia Zorkinski, Maya Furstenberg, Ezra Freiheit
The Human Rights museum's only Jewish trustee wanted the Nakba Exhibit. He just quitJun 24, 2026 · 30 minWith Mark Berlin
What we know about the deadly Montreal shootings that shook a Jewish neighbourhoodJun 23, 2026 · 27 min
A synagogue heard local schoolchildren were hungry. They've delivered 7,000 lunchesJun 22, 2026 · 25 minWith Irv Siegel, Denise Clark, Brandon Kleiman, Paul Rose, Shaina David Macey, Sandy Arbuck
Extremist settlers 'threaten' Israeli society, President Herzog warned. This Canadian activist flew to witness for herselfJun 19, 2026 · 30 minWith Ronit Yarosky, Maytal Kowalski
Montreal rabbi says 'I'll eat my kippah' if firebomb attack wasn't deliberate hate crimeJun 17, 2026 · 30 minWith Lisa Grushcow
"We need an incredibly strong Ark": Jonathan Levy's Farewell to TanenbaumCHATJun 15, 2026 · 29 minWith Jonathan Levy
The protesters were farther away at Toronto's Walk with Israel. The anger and anxiety weren'tJun 10, 2026 · 18 minWith Talia Klein-Leighton, Alan Reisler, Adrienne Nussbaum
After a difficult year, Toronto's Jewish community prepares to walk againJun 5, 2026 · 24 min
Carney says Canada's civic compact is failing Jewish Canadians. But Jewish leaders want actionJun 3, 2026 · 45 minWith Mark Sandler, Debra Landsberg, Joe Konofsky, Steven Wernick, Noah Shack, Baruch Friedman Cole, Jennifer Gorman, Simon Wall
Gail Asper calls for review of new Nakba exhibit at the museum her father foundedJun 1, 2026 · 31 minWith Gail Asper, Bryan Schwartz
"We Belong Here”: He got Niagara Falls, Canadian Landmarks Lit Up for Jewish Heritage MonthMay 29, 2026 · 25 minWith Len Pearl
A Yiddish 'Fiddler on the Roof' Arrives in Canada at Exactly the Right TimeMay 27, 2026 · 26 minWith Jonathan Rothman
New sightings, expanded search for missing autistic Toronto teen, Esther, now into second weekMay 25, 2026 · 19 minWith Simmy Zelenuk, Victor Fiszko, speaker_5, Sander Hitzig

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