North Star with Ellin Bessner

News & Politics Podcasts

Newsmaker conversations from The Canadian Jewish News, hosted by Ellin Bessner, a veteran broadcaster, writer and journalist.

Episodes

Israel’s new Toronto consul general says boycotts are not the solution

Beth Tzedec, Canada’s largest synagogue, erecting perimeter fence for High Holidays

New Israeli Oct. 7 film about to premiere at TIFF, amid boycott calls

Federal court orders Carney government to release more Nazi war criminal documents

Why Toronto’s Orthodox Rabbis won’t officiate at MAID funerals, or provide burial plots

CBC changed its terrorism policy for 9/11—but still not for Hamas

Jewish groups 'relieved' after Montreal softens controversial anti-Israel vote

Canadian Jewish milk and honey farmers on Trump’s trade war: 'You can’t concede on sovereignty'

Back to school: TanenbaumCHAT and OJCS's two new heads of school on Jewish education, safety and joy

Late Holocaust survivor Eva Olsson spoke to over 1.5 million students

Meet the man who has been chasing the world's best gelato since 2011

B.C. wildfires: Jews open their homes, kitchens and rally to help evacuees

Jewish students speak out after landmark campus antisemitism study

Finding their people: How B.C.’s small Jewish communities are growing

This Canadian soldier waited 109 years for his funeral Kaddish

‘In my baseball team, I’m the only Jewish kid’: What the JCC Maccabi Games mean to its athletes

Moncton's Tiferes Israel Synagogue celebrates 100 years with reunion, plans for second century

From Toronto to Texas: Why Shloime Zionce is driving his Cybertruck cross-continent on a mitzvah mission

Building Jewish Canada out West: Vancouver's JWest reaches milestone, Edmonton's new JCC well underway

Rejected by his parents for being gay, Harvey Brownstone turned pain into a best-selling memoir