North Star with Ellin Bessner
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Newsmaker conversations from The Canadian Jewish News, hosted by Ellin Bessner, a veteran broadcaster, writer and journalist.
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- [The Jewish Angle] Why Jesse Brown quit hosting Canadaland · 37 min[This episode originally aired on The Jewish Angle. Subscribe to that podcast here.] In early October, Jesse Brown—founder of one of Canada's most recognized independent podcast…
- A Canadian Jewish war hero's forgotten legacy found in a pawn shop · 20 minIn the summer of 2022, coin expert Brian Iseman of Richmond Hill, Ont., stumbled on a trove of long-forgotten personal military possessions belonging to the family of Lt. Myer T…
- This giant pumpkin with a Hebrew name is competing for top honours at Toronto's Royal Agricultural Winter Fair · 25 minThe Royal Agricultural Winter Fair opened to the public Friday Nov. 6 in Toronto for its 104th year, with its iconic butter sculptures, goat mascots and the World Cup equestrian…
- An Italian Catholic family hid the Stroms from the Nazis. Now Yad Vashem honours the rescuers in Canada · 23 minIn the fall of 1943, the Strom family, Polish Jews living in Rome, found themselves fleeing for their lives after the Nazis occupied most of northern and central Italy and began…
- Canada's Holocaust survivors are dying. Who will carry their stories forward? · 29 minAbout 40,000 Holocaust survivors settled in Canada after the war, and many later spent their retirement years teaching future generations about hatred and antisemitism. They…
- Ahead of budget, $50 million needed for Toronto Jewish security upgrades, millions more for guards: JSN CEO · 26 minJewish leaders across Canada are looking to Ottawa later this week to see whether the Nov. 5 federal budget contains substantial funding increases and other commitments to…
- CFB Wainwright's Jewish victim: Pte. Aidan Goulding’s family remembers their ‘ambitious’, ‘brilliant’ hero · 25 minWhen Pte. Aidan Goulding was given his Hebrew name, his family chose Ilan, after Israel’s first astronaut, Ilan Ramon, who died in 2003, just a month before Goulding was born…
- Hear the courtroom drama over a Winnipeg synagogue's fight with former members · 23 minRelated links • Read detailed coverage of the Oct. 7, 2026 Court of King's Bench hearing, in The CJN. • Winnipeg police charge suspect after antisemitic graffiti sprayed on…
- Meet the Israelis travelling from Canada to vote in the Knesset election · 32 minAn estimated 67,000 Israelis living abroad say they planned to fly back to the Jewish State to vote Tuesday Oct. 27 in the historic national election – the first one since Oct…
- What's at stake in this month's votes in Ontario, Quebec, B.C. and the Prairies? The CJN's Political Panel weighs in · 34 minIt’s hard to remember when Canadians have had so many elections in such a short span. In three weeks this October, there will have been seven—including municipal and provincial…
- 'This is my Torah scroll': Artist's travelling exhibit of 54 parshas opens in Toronto · 18 minMontreal artist Sheila Nemtin Levine didn’t plan to fulfill the final commandment of the Torah, which says that every Jew should write their own Old Testament. But that’s what…
- [Menschwarmers] Welcome to the golden age of Jewish NHL players · 46 minEllin is off today, so we're bringing you the latest episode of Menschwarmers, The CJN's Jewish sports podcast. Hear more at thecjn.ca/menschwarmers Jewish hockey is having a…
- Canadian Jewish military member takes legal action after nearly 30 discrimination claims rejected · 24 minNote: This episode contains explicit and offensive language. When the Canadian Armed Forces issued an official apology in October 2025 for decades of racial discrimination and…
- After 22 years at the TDSB, Shelley Laskin has a message for her successors · 30 minAfter six terms and 22 years of public service, Shelley Laskin is stepping away from the Toronto District School Board. The board's longest-serving active trustee has decided not…
- Grieving Out Loud: Inside Toronto’s new open mic for loss · 20 minWhen Rachel Carmela’s mother died just before the COVID pandemic, her family was able to sit shiva. But the sudden lockdown in March 2020 curtailed communal gatherings where she…
- Canada’s first Oct. 7 memorial inside a Jewish cemetery is in Calgary · 23 minWhen Calgary’s new sculpture, Shattered Into Light, was transported from the artist’s California studio in a wooden crate, Calgary Jewish cemetery operators thought it looked…
- New antisemitic flyers in Belleville raise alarm: 'This is where these ideas begin” · 23 minWhen Belleville resident Debbie Hoskin’s husband discovered an antisemitic black and white, two-sided flyer on their front lawn on Oct. 1, she knew right away it was Jew hatred…
- Honourable Menschen: The King of Kensington’s creator, a Holocaust historian, an Elvis-loving philanthropist and two rabbis · 28 minTelevision producer Perry Rosemond, who died Sept. 11 in Las Vegas, helped create some of the most iconic Canadian television of his generation, especially The King of…
- Israel votes October 27. The real political drama may come after · 26 minIsrael's election to form the country's next government is less than four weeks away, with voters in Israel going to the polls on Oct. 27. Long serving Prime Minister Benjamin…
- After Winnipeg's Jewish archives flooded, an enormous recovery effort is underway · 25 minIt’s been nearly four months since a massive rainstorm hit Winnipeg on June 9, causing a flood in the basement of the Asper Jewish Community Campus. That’s where half the…
- Canada's Jewish leaders call for armed guards, more police at all their institutions · 24 minWarning: This podcast contains a clip of hateful language. Both B’nai Brith Canada and Montreal’s Jewish federation, Federation CJA, have issued a call to change legislation in…
- 'Someone was protecting us': Belleville's guest Rabbi Oded Peles on surviving the Yom Kippur attack and what's next · 29 minIsraeli Rabbi Oded Peles was a few minutes late starting the Yom Kippur evening service in Belleville, Ont., on Sept. 20, because he paused to help two female congregants light…
- Deborah Lyons: Canada’s Advisory Council to Combat Antisemitism Must Deliver · 24 minAmb. Deborah Lyons has stayed out of the public eye for the past year, ever since she abruptly stepped down as Canada’s last special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and…
- Israel’s new Toronto consul general says boycotts are not the solution · 24 minNadav Zysblat has just begun his posting as Israel’s new Consul General in Toronto and Western Canada at a particularly difficult moment in Canada-Israel relations. In the days…
- Beth Tzedec, Canada’s largest synagogue, erecting perimeter fence for High Holidays · 25 minWork crews affixed a row of black metal fence posts into cement around the front and along both sides of Beth Tzedec Congregation in midtown Toronto on Sept. 10, laying the…
- New Israeli Oct. 7 film about to premiere at TIFF, amid boycott calls · 26 minThis week, the Toronto International Film Festival will take over the city’s downtown. Among the many films slated for red-carpet premieres is Our Loves, the latest by…
- Federal court orders Carney government to release more Nazi war criminal documents · 42 minThe Federal Court has ordered Canada to release another group of Nazi war criminal documents from the 1985 Deschênes report laying bare the government's controversial immigration…
- Why Toronto’s Orthodox Rabbis won’t officiate at MAID funerals, or provide burial plots · 30 minA landmark letter on MAID, approved recently by Toronto's main Orthodox rabbinical council—also called the Vaad HaRabbanim—is sounding the alarm about what the group notes is the…
- CBC changed its terrorism policy for 9/11—but still not for Hamas · 24 minA leaked memo to CBC journalists last week ordered them not to call the 9/11 al-Qaida attacks "terrorism" in forthcoming coverage of next month's 25th anniversary. It prompted…
- Jewish groups 'relieved' after Montreal softens controversial anti-Israel vote · 25 minEarlier this week, on Aug. 24, Montreal’s City Council adopted a motion expressing solidarity with the Palestinians and all civilians affected, and supporting international…
- Canadian Jewish milk and honey farmers on Trump’s trade war: 'You can’t concede on sovereignty' · 27 minWhen trade negotiations between Canada and the United States broke off Aug. 19, mere weeks before Rosh Hashanah, Prime Minister Mark Carney described the situation as being “at…
- Back to school: TanenbaumCHAT and OJCS's two new heads of school on Jewish education, safety and joy · 28 minThis fall, two well-known Canadian Jewish schools will introduce new heads of school—and both leaders share similar visions for what students and parents and staff can expect…
- Late Holocaust survivor Eva Olsson spoke to over 1.5 million students · 12 minThe late Holocaust survivor and speaker Eva Olsson died Aug. 4 in Port Carling, Ont. She was 101. She once estimated that she had given 4,300 presentations over the years. Her…
- Meet the man who has been chasing the world's best gelato since 2011 · 23 minOne of Peter Cohen’s favourite gelato shops in the world is San Crispino, in Rome, Italy. It’s among the nearly 2,000 pins on the Montrealer’s personal online World Gelato Map…
- B.C. wildfires: Jews open their homes, kitchens and rally to help evacuees · 28 minOn Aug. 7, Todd Shapiro was just finishing dinner in Summerland, B.C., when a wildfire outside the town “exploded” and prompted an immediate provincial emergency evacuation…
- Jewish students speak out after landmark campus antisemitism study · 27 minOn Aug. 5, a new national study of antisemitism on Canadian university campuses revealed a startling reality: 95.7 per cent of Jewish students surveyed said they had experienced…
- Finding their people: How B.C.’s small Jewish communities are growing · 26 minIn May, Jewish residents in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island were invited to celebrate the festival of Lag BaOmer around a bonfire. On Aug. 6, a kayak paddling excursion on…
- This Canadian soldier waited 109 years for his funeral Kaddish · 26 minWhen Canadian First World War soldier Pvt. Albert Detmold was killed by German shelling on Aug. 15, 1917, while digging communication trenches on the front lines in northern…
- ‘In my baseball team, I’m the only Jewish kid’: What the JCC Maccabi Games mean to its athletes · 26 minFor the past week, Canada has played host to more than 2,000 Jewish teen athletes from around the world, who competed at the 2026 JCC Maccabi Games. Competitors and their…
- Moncton's Tiferes Israel Synagogue celebrates 100 years with reunion, plans for second century · 23 minMore than 135 descendants of Moncton, N.B.'s founding Jewish families returned over the August long weekend for a sold-out centennial reunion at Tiferes Israel Synagogue, sharing…
- From Toronto to Texas: Why Shloime Zionce is driving his Cybertruck cross-continent on a mitzvah mission · 26 minLast week, if you were in Toronto, you may have spotted a striking yellow-and-black Tesla Cybertruck cruising around the city. Behind the wheel was Shloime Zionce, the…
- Building Jewish Canada out West: Vancouver's JWest reaches milestone, Edmonton's new JCC well underway · 27 minCanada’s largest public Jewish construction project, the JWest campus in Vancouver, has reached a significant milestone. About two weeks ago, on July 16, Vancouver’s city council…
- Rejected by his parents for being gay, Harvey Brownstone turned pain into a best-selling memoir · 39 min“Everything I did was about making my parents proud,” said retired Ontario Court of Justice judge Harvey Brownstone, summing up his lifetime struggle for acceptance. Rejected and…
- The search for Esti: Inside Shomrim Toronto's biggest mission ever · 40 minShomrim Toronto became the public face of the massive volunteer effort to help Toronto police search for 14-year-old Esti, an autistic Jewish teenager who went missing from her…
- Meet the Canadian now leading one of the world's oldest Jewish women's organizations · 27 minDebbie Wasserman has spent nearly four decades volunteering with the National Council of Jewish Women in Canada. Now she’s taken on her highest profile role yet: she’s the new…
- He survived the Holocaust as a child. Now he has drawn those memories · 25 minVancouver Holocaust survivor Adam Policzer, 87, is marking three major milestones this summer: the publication of his first English-language Holocaust autobiography in the form…
- [Greatest Hits] Nautical nachas: This summer, welcome Shabbat on a boat in the Laurentians · 28 minThis episode originally aired on July 25, 2025. Ellin Bessner will return with new episodes next week. If you happen to be in the Laurentians one Friday afternoon this summer…
- [Menschwarmers] Apparently Egypt losing in the World Cup is a Zionist conspiracy · 34 minThis episode of Menschwarmers originally aired on July 9, 2026. Subscribe at thecjn.ca/menschwarmers. __ The recent FIFA World Cup match between Egypt and Argentina became a…
- [Greatest Hits] Despite a victorious court ruling, women are still second-class citizens at the Western Wall · 19 minThis episode originally aired on July 26, 2023, when this podcast was called The CJN Daily_. We will resume all-new stories next week._ There were whistles and angry shouts of…
- [Not in Heaven] Do you need to feel hate to commit a hate crime? · 38 minThis episode originally aired on Not in Heaven on July 9, 2026. Subscribe to Not in Heaven here. How much does motive matter when it comes to hate crimes? In recent years…
