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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.

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November 30, 2025 at 11:53 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.

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November 27, 2025 at 6:48 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).

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November 25, 2025 at 6:27 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.

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November 18, 2025 at 8:49 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...
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 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.
October 27, 2025 at 6:38 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'.
October 24, 2025 at 6:42 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.
October 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM