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

After Yom Kippur, one author is asking: Can we actually make Heaven on Earth?

2022.10.06

QR codes on tombstones? For Yom Kippur, we discuss the future of the death business

2022.10.04

In 1973, a record 10 boys celebrated their b’nai mitzvah in Oshawa. Now a docuseries has tracked them down to share their stories

2022.10.03

Get a taste of Bonnie Stern’s first cookbook in over a decade

2022.09.29

High Holiday Hurricane: How Maritime Jews celebrated Rosh Hashanah after post-tropical storm Fiona

2022.09.28

For the first time in nearly 100 years, Belleville’s synagogue can’t offer High Holiday services—because no one will lead them

2022.09.22

Saving Sukkot: Hear why the Canadian government almost accidentally banned importing lulavs

2022.09.21

Ottawa’s Jewish community has a message for their school board: ‘Nothing about us, without us’

2022.09.20

Canada’s oldest Ashkenazi congregation just recovered a 100-year-old time capsule on its milestone anniversary weekend

2022.09.19

Marsha Lederman’s new job as a Globe and Mail opinion columnist would have made her mother proud

2022.09.15

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

Why did an Orthodox boys’ choir suddenly go viral on TikTok?

2022.10.07

Teshuvah lasts longer than a week. Meet some of the Canadians living the journey

2022.09.30

Podcast rewind: Highlights and teshuvahs from the year 5782

2022.09.22

Hasidic schools are held to a different standard of education. Should they be?

2022.09.16

It’s campaign kickoff season for Federations around Canada. But are their galas worth the cost?

2022.09.09

Yehuda Kurtzer tackles the question: ‘What does it mean to provide our children with a Jewish education?’

2022.09.02

Do Jewish day schools actually work?

2022.08.26

Bridegrooms and tech booms: How Jewish romance is (and isn’t) changing with the times

2022.08.19

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

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

Niagara Falls is losing its only synagogue—but the building’s legacy lives on

2022.09.29

One woman’s mission to revitalize the Jewish community of Quebec City

2022.09.07

Small-town Judaism is in danger. Here’s how it can be saved

2022.08.24

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

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

Buy me some pinot and Cracker Jack: Meet the MLB’s first-ever master sommelier

2022.10.03

‘I belong on the ice’: The remarkable story of trailblazing hockey player Eliezer Sherbatov

2022.09.14

A Canadian Jewish Olympian recalls witnessing the 1972 Munich Games, 50 years later

2022.09.01

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

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.