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Melissa Lantsman has emerged as arguably the most high-profile Jewish MP in Canada.
Read @johnlorinc.bsky.social's feature profile on Lantsman in the Winter 2025 issue of Scribe Quarterly — arriving in mailboxes soon!
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Read @johnlorinc.bsky.social's feature profile on Lantsman in the Winter 2025 issue of Scribe Quarterly — arriving in mailboxes soon!
thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
December 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Melissa Lantsman has emerged as arguably the most high-profile Jewish MP in Canada.
Read @johnlorinc.bsky.social's feature profile on Lantsman in the Winter 2025 issue of Scribe Quarterly — arriving in mailboxes soon!
thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
Read @johnlorinc.bsky.social's feature profile on Lantsman in the Winter 2025 issue of Scribe Quarterly — arriving in mailboxes soon!
thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
Thank you to over 250 donors for helping us exceed our fundraising goal this #GivingTuesday! Your support makes a difference to the future of our mission and helps us continue our essential work of covering news across the country.
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Thank you to over 250 donors for helping us exceed our fundraising goal this #GivingTuesday! Your support makes a difference to the future of our mission and helps us continue our essential work of covering news across the country.
Thank you to those who have already supported our work this season – our work is only possible because of donors like you! Help us reach Canadians across the country and keep Jewish journalism strong.
Donate and receive a 2025 tax receipt. Visit thecjn.ca/donate.
Donate and receive a 2025 tax receipt. Visit thecjn.ca/donate.
December 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Thank you to those who have already supported our work this season – our work is only possible because of donors like you! Help us reach Canadians across the country and keep Jewish journalism strong.
Donate and receive a 2025 tax receipt. Visit thecjn.ca/donate.
Donate and receive a 2025 tax receipt. Visit thecjn.ca/donate.
Today's the day! So far we've raised 25% of our goal - thank you for supporting us this #GivingTuesday! Help keep Jewish journalism strong this year at thecjn.ca/donate.
December 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Today's the day! So far we've raised 25% of our goal - thank you for supporting us this #GivingTuesday! Help keep Jewish journalism strong this year at thecjn.ca/donate.
How has The CJN further connected you to the Canadian Jewish community?
In the last of our mini interviews, meet North Star host Ellin Bessner.
#GivingTuesday is TWO DAYS AWAY! Visit thecjn.ca/donate.
#IndependentJournalism #JewishMedia
In the last of our mini interviews, meet North Star host Ellin Bessner.
#GivingTuesday is TWO DAYS AWAY! Visit thecjn.ca/donate.
#IndependentJournalism #JewishMedia
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
How has The CJN further connected you to the Canadian Jewish community?
In the last of our mini interviews, meet North Star host Ellin Bessner.
#GivingTuesday is TWO DAYS AWAY! Visit thecjn.ca/donate.
#IndependentJournalism #JewishMedia
In the last of our mini interviews, meet North Star host Ellin Bessner.
#GivingTuesday is TWO DAYS AWAY! Visit thecjn.ca/donate.
#IndependentJournalism #JewishMedia
What's a CJN project or story that has been particularly meaningful to you?
Meet Not in Heaven host and Scribe Quarterly contributor Avi Finegold.
On #GivingTuesday, help us do what we do and keep independent Jewish journalism free for everyone.
Visit thecjn.ca/donate.
Meet Not in Heaven host and Scribe Quarterly contributor Avi Finegold.
On #GivingTuesday, help us do what we do and keep independent Jewish journalism free for everyone.
Visit thecjn.ca/donate.
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
What's a CJN project or story that has been particularly meaningful to you?
Meet Not in Heaven host and Scribe Quarterly contributor Avi Finegold.
On #GivingTuesday, help us do what we do and keep independent Jewish journalism free for everyone.
Visit thecjn.ca/donate.
Meet Not in Heaven host and Scribe Quarterly contributor Avi Finegold.
On #GivingTuesday, help us do what we do and keep independent Jewish journalism free for everyone.
Visit thecjn.ca/donate.
Why is it important to you to maintain a forum for diverse ideas at The CJN?
The faces behind the stories come into the limelight in FACES OF THE CJN. Meet Phoebe Maltz Bovy (@phoebebovy.bsky.social).
#GivingTuesday is one week away! Visit thecjn.ca/donate.
The faces behind the stories come into the limelight in FACES OF THE CJN. Meet Phoebe Maltz Bovy (@phoebebovy.bsky.social).
#GivingTuesday is one week away! Visit thecjn.ca/donate.
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Why is it important to you to maintain a forum for diverse ideas at The CJN?
The faces behind the stories come into the limelight in FACES OF THE CJN. Meet Phoebe Maltz Bovy (@phoebebovy.bsky.social).
#GivingTuesday is one week away! Visit thecjn.ca/donate.
The faces behind the stories come into the limelight in FACES OF THE CJN. Meet Phoebe Maltz Bovy (@phoebebovy.bsky.social).
#GivingTuesday is one week away! Visit thecjn.ca/donate.
Why is The CJN important to you?
The faces behind the stories come into the limelight in FACES OF THE CJN. Meet Bryan Borzykowski.
Help us do what we do this #GivingTuesday and keep independent, trusted Jewish journalism free for everyone.
thecjn.ca/donate
The faces behind the stories come into the limelight in FACES OF THE CJN. Meet Bryan Borzykowski.
Help us do what we do this #GivingTuesday and keep independent, trusted Jewish journalism free for everyone.
thecjn.ca/donate
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Why is The CJN important to you?
The faces behind the stories come into the limelight in FACES OF THE CJN. Meet Bryan Borzykowski.
Help us do what we do this #GivingTuesday and keep independent, trusted Jewish journalism free for everyone.
thecjn.ca/donate
The faces behind the stories come into the limelight in FACES OF THE CJN. Meet Bryan Borzykowski.
Help us do what we do this #GivingTuesday and keep independent, trusted Jewish journalism free for everyone.
thecjn.ca/donate
Our three rabbi podcasters unpack the love story between a rabbi and a podcaster – a story that, as Opinion Editor @phoebebovy.bsky.social puts it, is “an awkwardly-timed infomercial for Judaism”.
Read Phoebe’s column: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
Full episode: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
Read Phoebe’s column: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
Full episode: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Our three rabbi podcasters unpack the love story between a rabbi and a podcaster – a story that, as Opinion Editor @phoebebovy.bsky.social puts it, is “an awkwardly-timed infomercial for Judaism”.
Read Phoebe’s column: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
Full episode: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
Read Phoebe’s column: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
Full episode: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
Read Rebecca Eckler's full discussion with John Irving: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
#JohnIrving #QueenEsther #LiteraryFiction #LitFic #AuthorInterview #Author #Reader
#JohnIrving #QueenEsther #LiteraryFiction #LitFic #AuthorInterview #Author #Reader
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Read Rebecca Eckler's full discussion with John Irving: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
#JohnIrving #QueenEsther #LiteraryFiction #LitFic #AuthorInterview #Author #Reader
#JohnIrving #QueenEsther #LiteraryFiction #LitFic #AuthorInterview #Author #Reader
“This ending was written in stone before I even began,” author John Irving says of writing Queen Esther, his 16th novel. “The trajectory that Zionist Esther would become, this child affected by antisemitism before she was three.”
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“This ending was written in stone before I even began,” author John Irving says of writing Queen Esther, his 16th novel. “The trajectory that Zionist Esther would become, this child affected by antisemitism before she was three.”
Quebec’s school boards have reported a few losses of Muslim personnel due to Bill 21, but there are no reports of affected Jewish staff to date. Both the English and French systems fear the laws will boost already worrisome staff shortages.
#Secularism #Quebec #FrancoisLegault
#Secularism #Quebec #FrancoisLegault
November 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Quebec’s school boards have reported a few losses of Muslim personnel due to Bill 21, but there are no reports of affected Jewish staff to date. Both the English and French systems fear the laws will boost already worrisome staff shortages.
#Secularism #Quebec #FrancoisLegault
#Secularism #Quebec #FrancoisLegault
The law also ends accommodation for religious holiday leave for both staff and students in public schools, as well as no dietary accommodations based on religion, i.e., supplying kosher or halal meat for students. 🧵
Read Bill 94's full provisions: thecjn.ca/news/quebec-...
Read Bill 94's full provisions: thecjn.ca/news/quebec-...
November 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The law also ends accommodation for religious holiday leave for both staff and students in public schools, as well as no dietary accommodations based on religion, i.e., supplying kosher or halal meat for students. 🧵
Read Bill 94's full provisions: thecjn.ca/news/quebec-...
Read Bill 94's full provisions: thecjn.ca/news/quebec-...
Sign up for Mizrahi Voices, this Saturday Nov 1st, here: thecjn.ca/community-ev...
#KofflerArts #MizrahiHeritageMonth #YemeniJewish #TorontoArts #Israeli #MizrahiArt
#KofflerArts #MizrahiHeritageMonth #YemeniJewish #TorontoArts #Israeli #MizrahiArt
October 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Sign up for Mizrahi Voices, this Saturday Nov 1st, here: thecjn.ca/community-ev...
#KofflerArts #MizrahiHeritageMonth #YemeniJewish #TorontoArts #Israeli #MizrahiArt
#KofflerArts #MizrahiHeritageMonth #YemeniJewish #TorontoArts #Israeli #MizrahiArt
“War dehumanizes. Literature humanizes,” the essay went on. “The writer illuminates one home, one voice, and in doing so, makes readers view others as less other.”
Read her full reflection here: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
Read her full reflection here: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
October 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“War dehumanizes. Literature humanizes,” the essay went on. “The writer illuminates one home, one voice, and in doing so, makes readers view others as less other.”
Read her full reflection here: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
Read her full reflection here: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
About writing post-Oct 7: “Everything is so surreal fiction can’t compare. A graduate student I supervise tells me he’s having doubts about his project. What’s the point, he says? I want to encourage him, but I have nothing,” @ayelettsabari.bsky.social wrote in an essay for New Quarterly.
October 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
About writing post-Oct 7: “Everything is so surreal fiction can’t compare. A graduate student I supervise tells me he’s having doubts about his project. What’s the point, he says? I want to encourage him, but I have nothing,” @ayelettsabari.bsky.social wrote in an essay for New Quarterly.
Read more: thecjn.ca/news/a-toron...
#GryfesBagelBakery #Gryfes #Bagels #TorontoBagels #MontrealBagels #NewYorkBagels #TorontoBakery #JewishBakery #JewishArchives
#GryfesBagelBakery #Gryfes #Bagels #TorontoBagels #MontrealBagels #NewYorkBagels #TorontoBakery #JewishBakery #JewishArchives
October 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Don’t get David Fisher, owner since 2022, started on how other bagel spots fail to nail the right recipe for the perfect bagel. 🧵
Archival pictures supplied by Ontario Jewish Archives.
Archival pictures supplied by Ontario Jewish Archives.
October 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Don’t get David Fisher, owner since 2022, started on how other bagel spots fail to nail the right recipe for the perfect bagel. 🧵
Archival pictures supplied by Ontario Jewish Archives.
Archival pictures supplied by Ontario Jewish Archives.
We start with our hosts: Avi Finegold, a rabbi and a writer with The CJN, and Yafa Sakkejha, a Canadian-Palestinian entrepreneur and volunteer with the Friends of Standing Together.
In the first episode, they meet face-to-face for the first time and just… talk.
In the first episode, they meet face-to-face for the first time and just… talk.
October 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
We start with our hosts: Avi Finegold, a rabbi and a writer with The CJN, and Yafa Sakkejha, a Canadian-Palestinian entrepreneur and volunteer with the Friends of Standing Together.
In the first episode, they meet face-to-face for the first time and just… talk.
In the first episode, they meet face-to-face for the first time and just… talk.
"That was always the joke when we were kids. Everyone claimed Shawn Green had gone to their synagogue on holidays, that they saw Shawn Green."
On today's Menschwarmers' ep: 'Every Jewish angle we could find to the Blue Jays’ World Series matchup'.
On today's Menschwarmers' ep: 'Every Jewish angle we could find to the Blue Jays’ World Series matchup'.
October 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"That was always the joke when we were kids. Everyone claimed Shawn Green had gone to their synagogue on holidays, that they saw Shawn Green."
On today's Menschwarmers' ep: 'Every Jewish angle we could find to the Blue Jays’ World Series matchup'.
On today's Menschwarmers' ep: 'Every Jewish angle we could find to the Blue Jays’ World Series matchup'.
On the two-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre, the families of the eight Canadians murdered want Carney to show the same level of compassion for Canadian citizens who have been killed as they feel he has shown to the Palestinians in Gaza.
October 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
On the two-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre, the families of the eight Canadians murdered want Carney to show the same level of compassion for Canadian citizens who have been killed as they feel he has shown to the Palestinians in Gaza.
Read the full story:
thecjn.ca/news/jewish-...
#ArielBibas #BibasBoys #TorontoWaterfrontMarathon #Batman #JewishFitnessCoach #YoelLevy
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#ArielBibas #BibasBoys #TorontoWaterfrontMarathon #Batman #JewishFitnessCoach #YoelLevy
October 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“I feel like I was treated like part of their family, in the hardest years of their lives. It’s not just one person who is impacted. Yarden has parents, aunties, cousins, and friends. On that day it made me realize that it’s so many people’s pain," says Yoel Levy, known as The Jewish Fitness Coach.
October 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“I feel like I was treated like part of their family, in the hardest years of their lives. It’s not just one person who is impacted. Yarden has parents, aunties, cousins, and friends. On that day it made me realize that it’s so many people’s pain," says Yoel Levy, known as The Jewish Fitness Coach.
This subtlety creates a nuanced, albeit comical, portrayal of yiddishkeit–without mentioning the word “Jewish”.
Read more: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
#LondonCalling #AllanUngar #RickHoffman #JewishRepresentation #Suits #JoshDuhamel
Read more: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
#LondonCalling #AllanUngar #RickHoffman #JewishRepresentation #Suits #JoshDuhamel
October 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This subtlety creates a nuanced, albeit comical, portrayal of yiddishkeit–without mentioning the word “Jewish”.
Read more: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
#LondonCalling #AllanUngar #RickHoffman #JewishRepresentation #Suits #JoshDuhamel
Read more: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
#LondonCalling #AllanUngar #RickHoffman #JewishRepresentation #Suits #JoshDuhamel