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

Meet the Canadian behind Globle, the web’s hot new geography game

2022.08.04

We visited the set of Adam Sandler’s bat mitzvah movie being filmed in Toronto

2022.08.03

For nearly 40 years, Benjamin’s charity foundation has been keeping 10% of donations—until a family sued

2022.08.02

At nearly 80 years old, Gary Averbach is trekking 1,000 km across Western Canada for cancer research

2022.07.28

The butterfly effect: Carol Pasternak, ‘The Monarch Crusader’, wants you to know the endangered monarch is a Jewish issue

2022.07.27

Go behind the scenes of Zach Hyman’s very Jewish charity golf tournament

2022.07.26

It’s been a year since Canada’s national antisemitism summit. What has been accomplished?

2022.07.25

Meet the Canadian lawyer whose one-act play just won a top Israeli prize

2022.07.20

80 years after his death, a Canadian war hero’s art finally finds an audience

2022.07.19

Hitmen murdered her son. Eight years later, she’s written a tell-all of her grief and survival

2022.07.18

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

Will interfaith marriages save Judaism—or destroy it?

2022.08.04

How the kosher sausage is made: Our resident rabbi confronted the head of Montreal Kosher—and the debate got heated

2022.07.29

Hillel Montreal says they’re ‘back’. Where did they go?

2022.07.22

Putting the ‘oy’ in cowboy: What is the future of Alberta Judaism?

2022.07.14

Why are younger Jews not donating as much as their parents’ generation?

2022.07.07

The state of Canadian Jewry: What makes us special?

2022.07.01

Does Canadian kosher meat really need to cost so much?

2022.06.23

Ethical food is hard to find. How can kosher keep up?

2022.06.17

Young queer Jews are redefining gender—and Judaism

2022.06.10

North America’s first female rabbi was ordained 50 years ago. What’s changed since then?

2022.06.02

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

How a handful of Jewish doctors formed an unlikely community in Sioux Lookout, Ont.

2022.08.09

Meet the Jamaican Jewish leader who once took Louis Farrakhan to synagogue

2022.07.07

Born in Barbados, Simon Kreindler spent years chronicling the island’s Jewish history

2022.06.14

‘I was not ready to move on’: After schoolyard antisemitism struck Stratford, Carrie Wreford took action

2022.05.31

It’s a lonesome life for a Jew in Western Newfoundland—and that’s how Sheina Lerman likes it

2022.05.18

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

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

Laurence Applebaum is on a mission to showcase Canadian golf to the world

2022.08.11

Laetitia Beck on growing golf in Israel, where there’s only one 18-hole course

2022.07.28

Go for gelt: Canada’s hockey teams have high hopes for a groundbreaking Maccabiah Games

2022.07.12

With Sue Bird’s retirement, a Jewish sports hero cements her legacy

2022.06.22

With the Baseball Talmud, Howard Megdal aims to settle the great debate over who’s better: Koufax or Greenberg?

2022.06.01

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

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.