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North Star with Ellin Bessner is a news podcast hosted by The CJN Podcasts. It has 802 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

Newsmaker conversations from The Canadian Jewish News, hosted by Ellin Bessner, a veteran broadcaster, writer and journalist.

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After Her Mother’s First Yahrzeit, daughter does 100-Library Walk

2

50 protesters. 80 Toronto police. Did anything change at Bathurst and Sheppard?

3

At an Orthodox Jewish Seder Table, a Long-Hidden Sexual Abuse Story Emerges

4

New B’nai Brith Canada CEO Simon Wolle set priorities. Now they’re being sorely tested

5

Canada Identifies Long-Lost Soldier from Prominent Jewish Family in the U.K.

6

NDP leadership race: Who's the the 'least bad' for the Jewish community?

7

Will Bill C-9 make it safer for Canada's Jews?

8

'This is a national security issue': Toronto MP Vince Gasparro after synagogue shootings

9

When the Siren Sounds, One in Five Israelis Can’t Reach Safety

10

After Synagogue Shootings, Legal Experts Warn Dropped Charges Fuel ‘Impunity’

11

Israel Warns Canada About Rising Antisemitism | Sharren Haskel

12

After the Toronto synagogue shootings: 'They want to scare us'

13

Gunfire aimed at three Toronto synagogues: has the threshold been crossed?

14

She loves Iran and Israel. What it’s like for this Canadian watching them at war

15

Iran targeted Irwin Cotler. What he says must happen now

16

Canadians in Israel: families sheltering, flights uncertain

17

Toronto’s James Hirsh says winning "Jeopardy!" was the thrill of a lifetime

18

Why Egalitarian Prayer at the Western Wall is at Risk

19

For the first time in a generation, Canadian Jews ask if they should leave

20

Why Jewish parents are raising concerns about anti-Palestinian racism policies for Ontario schools

21

Jewish summer camps in Canada respond to new “antisemitic” boycott campaign

22

Meet the Canadian who's putting Jewish athletes on Manischewitz matzah boxes

23

Montreal family won't give up legal fight on behalf of expelled Iraqi Jews from 1950s

24

Despite Cuba travel warning, first Canadian Jewish mission to Havana in 7 years delivers medicine, supplies—and baseball gear

25

Global antisemitism experts offer their insight as Canada pivots its anti-hate approach

26

‘Canada’s dirty little secret’: Descendants demand action for 2,300 wrongfully imprisoned Jewish WWII refugees

27

Bob Rae argues Canada was right to recognize Palestine statehood and UNRWA at the U.N.

28

[From the archives] Where heaven meets Earth: Vancouver’s Jewish community now grows fresh fruit and veggies on the rooftop

29

[From the archives] What’s so great about Montreal winters? Ezra Soiferman’s new film captures the beauty of Snowbec

30

‘I want them to ask me’: A survivor’s son on why he tattooed his father’s Auschwitz number on his arm

31

[In Good Faith] What Canadians can learn from Israelis and Palestinians whose grief led them to advocate for peace

32

Canadians with IDF ties react to Canada's 'witch hunt' against former Israeli soldiers

33

Why it’s time for a shorter workweek: this Canadian business author calls it ‘Do More in Four’

34

A Senate committee has wrapped up a study of Canada's antisemitism problem. Why one Senator calls some witnesses problematic

35

How anti-Zionism emerged as a modern ideology [The Jewish Angle]

36

Venezuelan Jews in Canada feeling joy, uncertainty after Maduro capture

37

Cindy Schwartz joins Order of Canada: her performing arts school trains dancers, actors, singers living with disabilities

38

'We need people to come forward': Winnipeg police update synagogue antisemitic graffiti case

39

What to expect from (Jewish) Canadian politics in 2026

40

North Star Live: The future of Israeli democracy, with the Shalom Hartman Institute

41

These Ontario ‘Family Feud’ winners were proud to represent Judaism onscreen—especially during hard times

42

Cabinet minister Evan Solomon opens up about ‘unacceptable’ antisemitism in Canada

43

Canadian Jews overwhelmingly support Israel, but hesitate to call themselves ‘Zionists’. A new study explains why

44

Canadians in Australia explain how ‘life now is completely different, overnight’

45

'Tonight when we light our candles, we're not just lighting for us': Canadians react to Australia terror

46

This Vancouver student just led a $1.6-million fundraising campaign for BBYO

47

Police confirm even more mezuzahs were stolen from Toronto seniors’ complex. Leaders think the number’s even higher

48

What's behind the recent flare ups of Holocaust denial in Poland?

49

A Hallmark movie gone wrong? How a glass-breaking accident took this groom from chuppah to hospital

50

'We weren't complete until all the hostages returned home': Ottawa seniors launch book of Oct. 7 feelings

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