The CJN Daily

This is what Jewish Canada sounds like. A bite-sized newscast hosted by investigative journalist Ellin Bessner, breaking stories and interviewing community leaders. Airs Monday to Thursday.

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Recent episodes

Sexually assaulted by a doctor at 17, Lorie Wolf slams rabbis for sending her away with just a cheque

2022.05.16

Sharon, without Lois or Bram, transforms her classic career into a family business

2022.05.12

Recognize these faces? A Dutch research team is asking Canadians to help identify its country’s lost Jews

2022.05.11

‘If they could kill him, they would’: Jewish couple who stopped a hate crime in Montreal speak out

2022.05.10

‘A punch in the stomach’: Rabbi Ayelet Cohen on why American Jews must speak out to support abortion rights

2022.05.09

Behind the bread: Melina ‘Saucy Soprano’ Schein on how she won Wall of Bakers

2022.05.05

Introducing The CJN Daily Dead Beat, telling real and rare stories of the recently deceased

2022.05.04

Israel has a new museum dedicated to Allied Jewish soldiers—but not a lot of Canadians

2022.05.03

News to watch out of Israel right now, according to the Times of Israel podcasters

2022.05.02

Hear the highlights of this historic debate over Holocaust denial in Canada’s House of Commons

2022.04.28

Bonjour Chai

Political punditry, spiritual advice, challenging analysis: our weekly current affairs show breaks down the most important topics for Canadian Jews every Friday morning. Follow us on Twitter @bonjourchai.

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Recent episodes

The not-so-secret history of antisemitism in Canada’s abortion debate

2022.05.13

York president Rhonda Lenton: This is ‘not the university that you’ve been hearing about in recent news’

2022.05.05

How Jay Baruchel tapped his Jewish heritage for a new death-obsessed TV show

2022.04.28

Mayim Bialik opens up about how the death of her father inspired her debut film

2022.04.22

Introducing The CJN’s Great Canadian Seder

2022.04.14

Ukraine is on the brink of a genocide. Can it be stopped?

2022.04.07

Are Jews really the most-targeted group for hate crimes—or do we just call the cops more?

2022.03.31

Disaster tourism and useless donations: What charities are getting wrong about the Ukraine war

2022.03.24

Quebec’s Bill 96 exposes a critical problem with homegrown Canadian rabbis: we barely have any

2022.03.17

Marijuana has been legal for years. Why is it still stigmatized in the Jewish community?

2022.03.10

Yehupetzville with Ralph Benmergui

From Moncton to Moose Jaw, Glace Bay to Thunder Bay, join veteran broadcaster Ralph Benmergui as he travels from coast to coast to coast in search of a truly national Canadian Jewish identity.

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Recent episodes

Remembering the last Jews of Maitland, Ont.

2022.05.04

The rise, fall and rebirth of FrumCity, the Orthodox migration to Innisfil that never happened

2022.04.06

Meet the Canadian who hung up the first mezuzah in Girona’s Jewish Quarter since 1492

2022.03.24

After fleeing Toronto, this artist found inspiration in the Canadian woods—and Israel

2022.03.09

Goldie Morgentaler: Keeping Yiddishkeit alive in Lethbridge

2022.02.23

Welcome to Waterloo: A lot of Jewish life for not a lot of Jews

2022.02.12

Can North Bay’s decimated Jewish community make a post-pandemic comeback?

2022.01.26

Memories of growing up Jewish in postwar Manitoba

2022.01.12

Kabbalat Shabbat on the beach: This is Jewish life on Bowen Island

2021.12.08

Meet the ‘Bagel Lady of Niagara’, serving up the only true Jewish bagels south of Hamilton

2021.12.01

Menschwarmers

The world’s most popular Jewish sports podcast. Join Gabe and Jamie for laid-back interviews, global commentary and surprisingly in-depth investigations into whether athletes whose names sound Jewish actually are. Follow us on Twitter @menschwarmers.

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Recent episodes

Barry Levinson’s ‘The Survivor’ tells the traumatic history behind a Jewish boxing legend

2022.05.12

Know a teenage Jewish baseball prodigy? Now’s their chance to try out for Team Israel

2022.04.28

Throw a hot dog on some matzah: It’s the Menschwarmers’ second annual Jewish baseball seder

2022.04.14

Why is there still so much antisemitism in wrestling?

2022.03.30

Roman Abramovich and the death of the Yid Army: It’s a wild time to be a Jewish soccer fan

2022.03.17

Go behind the scenes of HBO’s ‘Winning Time’ with writer Jeff Pearlman

2022.03.01

Why nobody cares about the Winter Olympics this year

2022.02.17

David Warsofsky on what it’s like heading to the Winter Olympics with Team USA

2022.02.02

Jewish sports stories worth watching in 2022

2022.01.19

The biggest Jewish sports moments of 2021

2021.12.16

Shticks & Giggles

What does it mean to be a Jewish comic in an era when “Jewish” is no longer synonymous with “stand-up”? To find the answer, comedian Laura Leibow sits down with the world’s best and brightest Jewish comics who were willing to appear on this show.