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Not in Heaven — 244 episodes

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All shepherd, no flock: With congregation numbers declining, freelance rabbis are on the rise

2

Conservative Judaism cracked open the door to interfaith families. Critics say it should go further

3

High Steaks: With kosher meat prices soaring, should Jews eat less of it?

4

Hoax or Hasid: Why stay in a religious community after you’ve stopped believing?

5

Do you need to feel hate to commit a hate crime?

6

Is enthusiasm for flags in synagogues flying at half-mast?

7

Turns out Jews also live outside major cities

8

Don't rain on my pro-Israel parade

9

Gett Naked: A revealing campaign about community accountability

10

Do AI Rabbis Dream of Electric Herring?

11

Jewish communities must face an uncomfortable question: Who is a Jew?

12

Smartphone, dumbphone, kosherphone, anglophone, francophone: How Canadian Jews are trying to find a healthy relationship with their devices

13

Up in arms: Why Jewish interest in gun ownership is surging

14

Is there a future for Jewish life in secularist Quebec?

15

Holocaust education isn’t coming to save us

16

The fifth annual Great Canadian Seder

17

Boys, men, and Kiddush clubs: The state of Jewish masculinity

18

Synagogues under fire: What solutions can actually keep the Jewish community safe?

19

The power and perils of blurring an ancient and modern day Purim

20

Sold to the highest bidder: whose manuscript is it anyway?

21

What's the next big idea? Birthright's co-founder wants to know

22

Jewish parents want their kids to play sports—just not professionally

23

End of a Grieving Era

24

A non-profit pays young people to host Shabbat dinners. It wound up firing 25% of its staff

25

Why do Jews keep comparing themselves to movie goblins?

26

Reflecting on the community response to the Winnipeg graffiti spree

27

'Long Story Short' and the evolution of Jewish TV

28

Plumbing the Rabbinic Pipeline: What New Data Says About The Future of Jewish Leadership

29

[In Good Faith] How a Palestinian and a Jewish Canadian are trying to depolarize the country

30

Escape from New York?

31

Nobody wants this (but everyone wants to talk about it)

32

Challahween? How Jewish families navigate Halloween

33

Who’s afraid of Zohran Mamdani?

34

Rosh Hashanah Roundup

35

Binge eating through the High Holidays

36

The state of Jewish education

37

Elul: High Holiday Foreplay

38

How can anyone be certain of anything happening in Israel?

39

The Jewish Angle: Is it ‘lashon hara’ to make fun of the Coldplay Jumbotron couple?

40

Brave Jew World: The future of Judaism and AI, feat. David Zvi Kalman

41

The great Cholent debate + Grok's wild antisemitism

42

Small-tent Judaism: The way of the future?

43

UJA, JNF, ADL, CIJA... TTYL?

44

Rabba Yedida and the taxonomy of orthodoxy

45

Shabbat-observant Jews: Keep your phone on for war updates, or stay religiously offline?

46

Debating the World Zionist Congress: Should Diaspora Jews get a say in Israeli affairs?

47

How to speak to your kids about the Washington murders

48

Are denominations still relevant?

49

1 in 3 Canadian Jews have a non-Jewish spouse. What does that mean for the country's Jewish future?

50

Burlesque Shabbat and kosher omakase: Is this really the future of Judaism?

51

How do we memorialize events when we're still living through them?

52

Should rabbis politicize the pulpit?

53

The Fourth Annual Great Canadian Seder

54

Conscious Uncoupling

55

Hasid or Hipster?

56

Is Trump the New Achashverosh?

57

Twin Peaks

58

Two Rights Make a Wrong

59

You Can't Spell TDSB Without BDS

60

Serenity Now

61

Gaza is the 52nd State

62

Why Did the Nazi Cross the Road?

63

Raise Your Hand if You Like Trump

64

Deal or No Deal

65

You Had Me at Goodbye

66

Freeland of Expression

67

The Z Word

68

Pushy Pencils

69

Stuffed to the Gillers

70

Challah Back

71

Don't Heart Huckabees

72

Roncesvalles Minyan

73

Election-Swinging Jews

74

What Do We Mean by Zion?

75

Dishy Vicar

76

Watermelon Shtreimel

77

Live, Laugh, Liberate

78

Lucky Jews

79

The Bari Files

80

Brooklyn Book Banning

81

Classically Avi

82

The Wild, The Innocent and the Poilievre Shuffle

83

The CJN Daily: Canada’s kosher meat packers won in federal court. How will this affect the Jewish community?

84

Chickens for KFC

85

Other Positions Are Possible

86

Vive l'Omnicause

87

Settling for Biden

88

Jews Against the Omnicause

89

Kiss and Tell

90

Bonus: "Labour of Love", from recollections with the Jewish Public Library

91

Bot Rabbis for Jesus

92

Hipster Tznius

93

I've Got Schisms

94

Gatekeepers of Heaven

95

The Tedious B

96

Notes on Encampment

97

The Third Annual Great Canadian Seder

98

No Fans, Only Poems

99

The Medium is Messy

100

Culturally Antisemitic

101

The Royal Steaks

102

Can't Get No Satisfaction

103

The Students Doth Protest Too Much

104

Jacob & Rachel & Leah & Bilhah & Zilpah

105

Potato Latke on a Bike

106

Rabbinical School Dropouts

107

Jew Don't Belong

108

It's Not Easy Being Art Green

109

Normie Jewisons

110

No Nazis at Zabars

111

The Entire World is a Very Narrow Tunnel

112

What's the deal with Zionism?

113

From the St. Lawrence River to the Beaufort Sea

114

Believe Jewish Women

115

Give Peace a Chance

116

The Two-Naomis Solution

117

Mazel Tov Cocktail

118

The Sermon on the Mount Herzl

119

Live from Holocaust Education Week

120

This Land is My Land

121

The Misconceptia Edition

122

Awoke O Zion

123

Some of My Best Friends are Jewish

124

Hunka Hunka Burning Parliament

125

The Great Canadian Sermon Slam 2023

126

Shakshuka like a Polaroid Picture

127

X-Rated Antisemitism

128

Value and Values of Jewish Day School

129

Everybody Nose

130

Zaftig Barbie

131

Klaus Barbie

132

Over the Hill

133

Notes on Camp

134

Smoke and Mirrors

135

Good Girls and Bad Gays

136

Pride & Prejudice

137

Come For Your Girlfriend, Stay for the Podcast

138

Inherently Fertile

139

A Good Rabbi is Hard to Find

140

Ham Sandwich Topped with Shrimp on Lard Bread

141

Live from Shaar Hashomayim: What's the secret to Chabad's success?

142

Secular? I Hardly Even Know Her

143

Defenders of the Faith

144

Zionist Occupation of the Dance Floor

145

DJ Elmaghribi

146

The Second Annual Great Canadian Seder

147

Morah-Core

148

Home Base

149

Do we still need to celebrate Jewish excellence?

150

Isabel and Nicki and Albert Hoffman

151

[Title Redacted by Sensitivity Reader]

152

Just Be a Mensch

153

Sitdown special: Mark (Moishe) Bane

154

Hot and Chanshi

155

You can’t spell "messianism" without "mess"

156

Israel Is So Basic

157

Bargain Basement Antisemitism

158

J’Accuse…!

159

Hanukkah, Chrismukkah, Swastika

160

The Ballroom in the Kiddush Room

161

The Two Solitudes

162

Family Feud

163

I'll Read What She's Reading

164

Noah to Shoah

165

Vote Ye or Nay

166

All the Genders of Genesis

167

Tabarnak! Kanye Better Not Come to My Sukkah

168

MK Pop

169

Return to Teshuvahland

170

If the Teshuvah Fits

171

Yoh Malkeh

172

No Campaign, No Gain

173

Shul is Such a Drag

174

The People of the Pocketbook

175

Hole-y Sheet

176

Shvitzing in August

177

Shattering Glass and Breaking Stereotypes

178

Definitely Not the Mafia

179

The Hillels are Alive with the Sound of Wedding Music

180

Putting the 'Oy' in Cowboy

181

None is Not Enough

182

As Canadian as Possible, Under the Circumstances

183

The Kosher Empire Strikes Back

184

You Are What You Eat

185

Born This Way

186

Sally Priesand's Semicentennial

187

Chai Means Live

188

The Kulturkampf Edition

189

Plan B from Olam ha-Ba

190

Ilana is Significantly Younger than Israel

191

Six Million are Still With Us

192

Mayim and Yayin

193

The First Annual Great Canadian Seder

194

There's Nothing Funny About War Crimes

195

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

196

Blankets and Bedding

197

Modern-Day Haman

198

Bonjour High

199

One Down, 119 to Go

200

Ukraine is Not Weak

201

Parliamentary Cop

202

Hate is Just a Four-Letter Word

203

Wait, Whoopi Goldberg Isn't Jewish?

204

Nobody Knows the Troubles I've Seen

205

Rabbis Throwing Chairs

206

Ob-La-Di, Omicron, Life Goes On

207

The Only Thing Orderly in Canada Right Now is the Order of Canada

208

It's the End of the Year as We Know it, and I Feel Fine

209

Bon Jew, Bad Jew

210

Moderate Mrs. Maisel

211

The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming About BDS

212

Crass Commercial Hanukkah

213

Community Ensures Continuity

214

Circumspect About Circumcision

215

The Week Jews Buy Halloween Candy on Sale

216

G'Day, Jewish Mate

217

Welcome to the Prairies

218

Rabbis Love Cheshvan

219

Mixed Use Does Not Equal Mixed Dancing

220

Truth Before Reconciliation

221

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head

222

Back to School, Back to Shul

223

Consider us the Canadian Jewish 'As it Happens'

224

Party like it's 5781

225

Election Preview: What are the Jewish issues to watch?

226

So Long, Farewell, Au Revoir—to Melissa

227

Jewish Geography Should be an Olympic Sport

228

Thank God Laura Secord Still Loves Israel

229

The journey to becoming Rivkush

230

The Real Stanley Cup was the Friends We Made Along the Way

231

It's Jacques Cartier, Right this Way

232

It's Not Easy Being Blue and White, Either

233

It's Not Easy Being Green

234

The Habs are the Only Good News in Canada

235

Bite-Sized Bonjour: Love is Love

236

Blue Screen of Death

237

Bite-Sized Bonjour: An Interview with Aviva Armour-Ostroff

238

Nobody Wins Unless Everybody Wins

239

Can't See the Forest for the Trees

240

It's Hard to Say I'm Sorry

241

The Vaccines Will Bring the Messiah

242

Quaran-seder: Part Deux

243

Same-Sex Marriage Revolution

244

Trailer: Bonjour Chai