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Not in Heaven — 233 episodes

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Smartphones are under fire. Orthodox Jews have had a solution for years

2

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

3

Is there a future for Jewish life in secularist Quebec?

4

Holocaust education isn’t coming to save us

5

The fifth annual Great Canadian Seder

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

End of a Grieving Era

13

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

14

Why do Jews keep comparing themselves to movie goblins?

15

Reflecting on the community response to the Winnipeg graffiti spree

16

'Long Story Short' and the evolution of Jewish TV

17

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

18

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

19

Escape from New York?

20

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

21

Challahween? How Jewish families navigate Halloween

22

Who’s afraid of Zohran Mamdani?

23

Rosh Hashanah Roundup

24

Binge eating through the High Holidays

25

The state of Jewish education

26

Elul: High Holiday Foreplay

27

How can anyone be certain of anything happening in Israel?

28

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

29

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

30

The great Cholent debate + Grok's wild antisemitism

31

Small-tent Judaism: The way of the future?

32

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

33

Rabba Yedida and the taxonomy of orthodoxy

34

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

35

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

36

How to speak to your kids about the Washington murders

37

Are denominations still relevant?

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

Should rabbis politicize the pulpit?

42

The Fourth Annual Great Canadian Seder

43

Conscious Uncoupling

44

Hasid or Hipster?

45

Is Trump the New Achashverosh?

46

Twin Peaks

47

Two Rights Make a Wrong

48

You Can't Spell TDSB Without BDS

49

Serenity Now

50

Gaza is the 52nd State

51

Why Did the Nazi Cross the Road?

52

Raise Your Hand if You Like Trump

53

Deal or No Deal

54

You Had Me at Goodbye

55

Freeland of Expression

56

The Z Word

57

Pushy Pencils

58

Stuffed to the Gillers

59

Challah Back

60

Don't Heart Huckabees

61

Roncesvalles Minyan

62

Election-Swinging Jews

63

What Do We Mean by Zion?

64

Dishy Vicar

65

Watermelon Shtreimel

66

Live, Laugh, Liberate

67

Lucky Jews

68

The Bari Files

69

Brooklyn Book Banning

70

Classically Avi

71

The Wild, The Innocent and the Poilievre Shuffle

72

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

73

Chickens for KFC

74

Other Positions Are Possible

75

Vive l'Omnicause

76

Settling for Biden

77

Jews Against the Omnicause

78

Kiss and Tell

79

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

80

Bot Rabbis for Jesus

81

Hipster Tznius

82

I've Got Schisms

83

Gatekeepers of Heaven

84

The Tedious B

85

Notes on Encampment

86

The Third Annual Great Canadian Seder

87

No Fans, Only Poems

88

The Medium is Messy

89

Culturally Antisemitic

90

The Royal Steaks

91

Can't Get No Satisfaction

92

The Students Doth Protest Too Much

93

Jacob & Rachel & Leah & Bilhah & Zilpah

94

Potato Latke on a Bike

95

Rabbinical School Dropouts

96

Jew Don't Belong

97

It's Not Easy Being Art Green

98

Normie Jewisons

99

No Nazis at Zabars

100

The Entire World is a Very Narrow Tunnel

101

What's the deal with Zionism?

102

From the St. Lawrence River to the Beaufort Sea

103

Believe Jewish Women

104

Give Peace a Chance

105

The Two-Naomis Solution

106

Mazel Tov Cocktail

107

The Sermon on the Mount Herzl

108

Live from Holocaust Education Week

109

This Land is My Land

110

The Misconceptia Edition

111

Awoke O Zion

112

Some of My Best Friends are Jewish

113

Hunka Hunka Burning Parliament

114

The Great Canadian Sermon Slam 2023

115

Shakshuka like a Polaroid Picture

116

X-Rated Antisemitism

117

Value and Values of Jewish Day School

118

Everybody Nose

119

Zaftig Barbie

120

Klaus Barbie

121

Over the Hill

122

Notes on Camp

123

Smoke and Mirrors

124

Good Girls and Bad Gays

125

Pride & Prejudice

126

Come For Your Girlfriend, Stay for the Podcast

127

Inherently Fertile

128

A Good Rabbi is Hard to Find

129

Ham Sandwich Topped with Shrimp on Lard Bread

130

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

131

Secular? I Hardly Even Know Her

132

Defenders of the Faith

133

Zionist Occupation of the Dance Floor

134

DJ Elmaghribi

135

The Second Annual Great Canadian Seder

136

Morah-Core

137

Home Base

138

Do we still need to celebrate Jewish excellence?

139

Isabel and Nicki and Albert Hoffman

140

[Title Redacted by Sensitivity Reader]

141

Just Be a Mensch

142

Sitdown special: Mark (Moishe) Bane

143

Hot and Chanshi

144

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

145

Israel Is So Basic

146

Bargain Basement Antisemitism

147

J’Accuse…!

148

Hanukkah, Chrismukkah, Swastika

149

The Ballroom in the Kiddush Room

150

The Two Solitudes

151

Family Feud

152

I'll Read What She's Reading

153

Noah to Shoah

154

Vote Ye or Nay

155

All the Genders of Genesis

156

Tabarnak! Kanye Better Not Come to My Sukkah

157

MK Pop

158

Return to Teshuvahland

159

If the Teshuvah Fits

160

Yoh Malkeh

161

No Campaign, No Gain

162

Shul is Such a Drag

163

The People of the Pocketbook

164

Hole-y Sheet

165

Shvitzing in August

166

Shattering Glass and Breaking Stereotypes

167

Definitely Not the Mafia

168

The Hillels are Alive with the Sound of Wedding Music

169

Putting the 'Oy' in Cowboy

170

None is Not Enough

171

As Canadian as Possible, Under the Circumstances

172

The Kosher Empire Strikes Back

173

You Are What You Eat

174

Born This Way

175

Sally Priesand's Semicentennial

176

Chai Means Live

177

The Kulturkampf Edition

178

Plan B from Olam ha-Ba

179

Ilana is Significantly Younger than Israel

180

Six Million are Still With Us

181

Mayim and Yayin

182

The First Annual Great Canadian Seder

183

There's Nothing Funny About War Crimes

184

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

185

Blankets and Bedding

186

Modern-Day Haman

187

Bonjour High

188

One Down, 119 to Go

189

Ukraine is Not Weak

190

Parliamentary Cop

191

Hate is Just a Four-Letter Word

192

Wait, Whoopi Goldberg Isn't Jewish?

193

Nobody Knows the Troubles I've Seen

194

Rabbis Throwing Chairs

195

Ob-La-Di, Omicron, Life Goes On

196

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

197

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

198

Bon Jew, Bad Jew

199

Moderate Mrs. Maisel

200

The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming About BDS

201

Crass Commercial Hanukkah

202

Community Ensures Continuity

203

Circumspect About Circumcision

204

The Week Jews Buy Halloween Candy on Sale

205

G'Day, Jewish Mate

206

Welcome to the Prairies

207

Rabbis Love Cheshvan

208

Mixed Use Does Not Equal Mixed Dancing

209

Truth Before Reconciliation

210

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head

211

Back to School, Back to Shul

212

Consider us the Canadian Jewish 'As it Happens'

213

Party like it's 5781

214

Election Preview: What are the Jewish issues to watch?

215

So Long, Farewell, Au Revoir—to Melissa

216

Jewish Geography Should be an Olympic Sport

217

Thank God Laura Secord Still Loves Israel

218

The journey to becoming Rivkush

219

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

220

It's Jacques Cartier, Right this Way

221

It's Not Easy Being Blue and White, Either

222

It's Not Easy Being Green

223

The Habs are the Only Good News in Canada

224

Bite-Sized Bonjour: Love is Love

225

Blue Screen of Death

226

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

227

Nobody Wins Unless Everybody Wins

228

Can't See the Forest for the Trees

229

It's Hard to Say I'm Sorry

230

The Vaccines Will Bring the Messiah

231

Quaran-seder: Part Deux

232

Same-Sex Marriage Revolution

233

Trailer: Bonjour Chai