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Not in Heaven — 239 episodes

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

2

Turns out Jews also live outside major cities

3

Don't rain on my pro-Israel parade

4

Gett Naked: A revealing campaign about community accountability

5

Do AI Rabbis Dream of Electric Herring?

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

Is there a future for Jewish life in secularist Quebec?

10

Holocaust education isn’t coming to save us

11

The fifth annual Great Canadian Seder

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

End of a Grieving Era

19

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

20

Why do Jews keep comparing themselves to movie goblins?

21

Reflecting on the community response to the Winnipeg graffiti spree

22

'Long Story Short' and the evolution of Jewish TV

23

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

24

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

25

Escape from New York?

26

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

27

Challahween? How Jewish families navigate Halloween

28

Who’s afraid of Zohran Mamdani?

29

Rosh Hashanah Roundup

30

Binge eating through the High Holidays

31

The state of Jewish education

32

Elul: High Holiday Foreplay

33

How can anyone be certain of anything happening in Israel?

34

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

35

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

36

The great Cholent debate + Grok's wild antisemitism

37

Small-tent Judaism: The way of the future?

38

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

39

Rabba Yedida and the taxonomy of orthodoxy

40

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

41

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

42

How to speak to your kids about the Washington murders

43

Are denominations still relevant?

44

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

45

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

46

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

47

Should rabbis politicize the pulpit?

48

The Fourth Annual Great Canadian Seder

49

Conscious Uncoupling

50

Hasid or Hipster?

51

Is Trump the New Achashverosh?

52

Twin Peaks

53

Two Rights Make a Wrong

54

You Can't Spell TDSB Without BDS

55

Serenity Now

56

Gaza is the 52nd State

57

Why Did the Nazi Cross the Road?

58

Raise Your Hand if You Like Trump

59

Deal or No Deal

60

You Had Me at Goodbye

61

Freeland of Expression

62

The Z Word

63

Pushy Pencils

64

Stuffed to the Gillers

65

Challah Back

66

Don't Heart Huckabees

67

Roncesvalles Minyan

68

Election-Swinging Jews

69

What Do We Mean by Zion?

70

Dishy Vicar

71

Watermelon Shtreimel

72

Live, Laugh, Liberate

73

Lucky Jews

74

The Bari Files

75

Brooklyn Book Banning

76

Classically Avi

77

The Wild, The Innocent and the Poilievre Shuffle

78

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

79

Chickens for KFC

80

Other Positions Are Possible

81

Vive l'Omnicause

82

Settling for Biden

83

Jews Against the Omnicause

84

Kiss and Tell

85

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

86

Bot Rabbis for Jesus

87

Hipster Tznius

88

I've Got Schisms

89

Gatekeepers of Heaven

90

The Tedious B

91

Notes on Encampment

92

The Third Annual Great Canadian Seder

93

No Fans, Only Poems

94

The Medium is Messy

95

Culturally Antisemitic

96

The Royal Steaks

97

Can't Get No Satisfaction

98

The Students Doth Protest Too Much

99

Jacob & Rachel & Leah & Bilhah & Zilpah

100

Potato Latke on a Bike

101

Rabbinical School Dropouts

102

Jew Don't Belong

103

It's Not Easy Being Art Green

104

Normie Jewisons

105

No Nazis at Zabars

106

The Entire World is a Very Narrow Tunnel

107

What's the deal with Zionism?

108

From the St. Lawrence River to the Beaufort Sea

109

Believe Jewish Women

110

Give Peace a Chance

111

The Two-Naomis Solution

112

Mazel Tov Cocktail

113

The Sermon on the Mount Herzl

114

Live from Holocaust Education Week

115

This Land is My Land

116

The Misconceptia Edition

117

Awoke O Zion

118

Some of My Best Friends are Jewish

119

Hunka Hunka Burning Parliament

120

The Great Canadian Sermon Slam 2023

121

Shakshuka like a Polaroid Picture

122

X-Rated Antisemitism

123

Value and Values of Jewish Day School

124

Everybody Nose

125

Zaftig Barbie

126

Klaus Barbie

127

Over the Hill

128

Notes on Camp

129

Smoke and Mirrors

130

Good Girls and Bad Gays

131

Pride & Prejudice

132

Come For Your Girlfriend, Stay for the Podcast

133

Inherently Fertile

134

A Good Rabbi is Hard to Find

135

Ham Sandwich Topped with Shrimp on Lard Bread

136

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

137

Secular? I Hardly Even Know Her

138

Defenders of the Faith

139

Zionist Occupation of the Dance Floor

140

DJ Elmaghribi

141

The Second Annual Great Canadian Seder

142

Morah-Core

143

Home Base

144

Do we still need to celebrate Jewish excellence?

145

Isabel and Nicki and Albert Hoffman

146

[Title Redacted by Sensitivity Reader]

147

Just Be a Mensch

148

Sitdown special: Mark (Moishe) Bane

149

Hot and Chanshi

150

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

151

Israel Is So Basic

152

Bargain Basement Antisemitism

153

J’Accuse…!

154

Hanukkah, Chrismukkah, Swastika

155

The Ballroom in the Kiddush Room

156

The Two Solitudes

157

Family Feud

158

I'll Read What She's Reading

159

Noah to Shoah

160

Vote Ye or Nay

161

All the Genders of Genesis

162

Tabarnak! Kanye Better Not Come to My Sukkah

163

MK Pop

164

Return to Teshuvahland

165

If the Teshuvah Fits

166

Yoh Malkeh

167

No Campaign, No Gain

168

Shul is Such a Drag

169

The People of the Pocketbook

170

Hole-y Sheet

171

Shvitzing in August

172

Shattering Glass and Breaking Stereotypes

173

Definitely Not the Mafia

174

The Hillels are Alive with the Sound of Wedding Music

175

Putting the 'Oy' in Cowboy

176

None is Not Enough

177

As Canadian as Possible, Under the Circumstances

178

The Kosher Empire Strikes Back

179

You Are What You Eat

180

Born This Way

181

Sally Priesand's Semicentennial

182

Chai Means Live

183

The Kulturkampf Edition

184

Plan B from Olam ha-Ba

185

Ilana is Significantly Younger than Israel

186

Six Million are Still With Us

187

Mayim and Yayin

188

The First Annual Great Canadian Seder

189

There's Nothing Funny About War Crimes

190

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

191

Blankets and Bedding

192

Modern-Day Haman

193

Bonjour High

194

One Down, 119 to Go

195

Ukraine is Not Weak

196

Parliamentary Cop

197

Hate is Just a Four-Letter Word

198

Wait, Whoopi Goldberg Isn't Jewish?

199

Nobody Knows the Troubles I've Seen

200

Rabbis Throwing Chairs

201

Ob-La-Di, Omicron, Life Goes On

202

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

203

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

204

Bon Jew, Bad Jew

205

Moderate Mrs. Maisel

206

The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming About BDS

207

Crass Commercial Hanukkah

208

Community Ensures Continuity

209

Circumspect About Circumcision

210

The Week Jews Buy Halloween Candy on Sale

211

G'Day, Jewish Mate

212

Welcome to the Prairies

213

Rabbis Love Cheshvan

214

Mixed Use Does Not Equal Mixed Dancing

215

Truth Before Reconciliation

216

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head

217

Back to School, Back to Shul

218

Consider us the Canadian Jewish 'As it Happens'

219

Party like it's 5781

220

Election Preview: What are the Jewish issues to watch?

221

So Long, Farewell, Au Revoir—to Melissa

222

Jewish Geography Should be an Olympic Sport

223

Thank God Laura Secord Still Loves Israel

224

The journey to becoming Rivkush

225

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

226

It's Jacques Cartier, Right this Way

227

It's Not Easy Being Blue and White, Either

228

It's Not Easy Being Green

229

The Habs are the Only Good News in Canada

230

Bite-Sized Bonjour: Love is Love

231

Blue Screen of Death

232

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

233

Nobody Wins Unless Everybody Wins

234

Can't See the Forest for the Trees

235

It's Hard to Say I'm Sorry

236

The Vaccines Will Bring the Messiah

237

Quaran-seder: Part Deux

238

Same-Sex Marriage Revolution

239

Trailer: Bonjour Chai