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A cornerstone of the Canadian Jewish landscape since 1960. Daily breaking news, cultural commentary, in-depth podcasts and Scribe Quarterly, a print magazine.
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Listen to the full episode of North Star with @ebessner here: https://t.co/1VrA9dInU0 Subscribe for free :
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Welcome to The Canadian Jewish News Since 1960, The Canadian Jewish News has told meaningful, accurate and insightful stories from the nation’s growing Jewish community. Now a dynamic multimedia...
Want to show you’re serious about fighting antisemitism in Canada? Start with the foreign agents registry.
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Congratulations AJ! 🎉 Read more about the Olympian's mission to get more Jews to care about sports: https://t.co/8bdd2E1cjd This interview was originally published in the Winter 2025 issue of Scribe Quarterly — which you can get delivered to your door for free!
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This interview was first published in the winter 2025 issue of Scribe Quarterly.
Israel Bobsled Team is heading to the Olympics. For Israel "impossible" is just something we do. Every day. 4390 days--12 years ago, a dream was born. A mission. Catapult Jewish and Israeli Winter Sport to a new level through the qualification of an Israeli Olympic Bobsled
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More of this!!! This is how you combat Jew hatred on campus! Jewish and non-Jewish students from across Canada came for the largest Shabbaton (weekend retreat) in over 20 years, as they shared ideas, built relationships, and worked to create meaningful pathways of cooperation
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Meet the comedian who calls himself the Chief Smile Officer of the IDF. The controversial Israeli comedian had to delay the start of his Toronto show for an hour because of the heavy security measures put in place by the venue’s team. Read more: https://t.co/76XvRjCCcC
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With @SenateCA preparing to release its antisemitism report in the coming months, @SenatorHousakos spoke with @TheCJN's Ellin Bessner about the urgent steps needed to protect Canada’s Jewish community—and why it matters to all Canadians. Senator Housakos didn’t shy away from
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New Pod! Back at it with some Jewish sports news including Deni Avdija's all-star campaign, Olympic hockey stars and snubs and a new home for former guest Alex Bregman: https://t.co/12kOI1r121
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Why was #Israeli comedian @HochmanGuy held at Pearson airport for six hours? Read more: https://t.co/76XvRjCCcC
#Toronto #Antisemitism #Israel
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As Alex Bregman signs with the Cubs, it's a good time to revisit the conversation he had with the @menschwarmers in 2024:
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The World Series champ joins the Menschwarmers sports podcast.
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Among the estimated eight million Venezuelans who left in the last two decades, tens of thousands are Jewish. Hear from three #Venezuelan Jews — Jonathan Rosemberg, Daniel Topel, and @rsarfatti — who have made their homes in Canada. Full episode: https://t.co/6u0rih4trH
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These #Venezeulan ✡️expats living in Canada welcome last weekend's news of former dictator @NicolasMaduro's capture by US forces to face drug charges in NewYork. But they worry what comes next for their beloved country, and its Jewish community–of which about 90% has left in
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“I felt very welcomed when I moved to Canada. It was very easy to come to Canada at that time. I came in 1972 and Pierre Trudeau, who was prime minister, was welcoming all these young Americans to come,” Leonard Schein told The CJN. Originally from California, Vancouver’s
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“I’m pleased that Holocaust survivors are getting the Order of Canada,” said Gotz. “It means that we have contributed in some way to Canadian culture, to Canadian understanding of the Holocaust.” Holocaust survivor and educator @EllyGotz, of Toronto, whose 2018 memoir Flights Of
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Ellin (@ebessner) talks to Winnipeg’s Belle Jarniewski (@BJarniewsk92132), who has spent decades teaching the Holocaust and antisemitism to local schools and universities. Recently, she was named director of the new Manitoba Institute to Combat Antisemitism. “Yelling things like
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What @winnipegpolice said about the hate crimes against local Jews (and vs. a Palestinian cafe) in the last week. What has the impact on the ✡️community been from the swastikas spray painted on Shaarey Zedek synagogue Jan. 2? And why one leader says its long past time
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