# Ellin Bessner

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Deborah Lyons: Canada’s Advisory Council to Combat Antisemitism Must Deliver

Amb. Deborah Lyons has stayed out of the public eye for the past year, ever since she abruptly stepped down as Canada’s last special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism. Lyons resigned three months early from her high-profile role, in July 2025, at the time tell ...

'Someone was protecting us': Belleville's guest Rabbi Oded Peles on surviving the Yom Kippur attack and what's next

Israeli Rabbi Oded Peles was a few minutes late starting the Yom Kippur evening service in Belleville, Ont., on Sept. 20, because he paused to help two female congregants light extra candles outside the sanctuary. Seconds later, a hail of bullets tore into the stained-glass windows beside the p ...

Canada's Jewish leaders call for armed guards, more police at all their institutions

Warning: This podcast contains a clip of hateful language. Both B’nai Brith Canada and Montreal’s Jewish federation, Federation CJA, have issued a call to change legislation in some provinces, including Quebec, that currently prevents private armed guards from working at Jewish institutions. B’ ...

After Winnipeg's Jewish archives flooded, an enormous recovery effort is underway

It’s been nearly four months since a massive rainstorm hit Winnipeg on June 9, causing a flood in the basement of the Asper Jewish Community Campus. That’s where half the archival collection of the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada was being stored: among the collection were some of the 7 ...

New antisemitic flyers in Belleville raise alarm: 'This is where these ideas begin”

When Belleville resident Debbie Hoskin’s husband discovered an antisemitic black and white, two-sided flyer on their front lawn on Oct. 1, she knew right away it was Jew hatred, as she calls it: the text blames Jews for everything from profiting off COVID-19 to being the promoters of abortion. A ...

Canada’s first Oct. 7 memorial inside a Jewish cemetery is in Calgary

When Calgary’s new sculpture, Shattered Into Light, was transported from the artist’s California studio in a wooden crate, Calgary Jewish cemetery operators thought it looked like an artifact from the film Raiders of the Lost Ark. The sculpture and an adjacent plaque were installed in a renovate ...

Grieving Out Loud: Inside Toronto’s new open mic for loss

When Rachel Carmela’s mother died just before the COVID pandemic, her family was able to sit shiva. But the sudden lockdown in March 2020 curtailed communal gatherings where she could say Kaddish for the rest of her year of mourning. At the time, Carmela was working as a music and mindfulness ...

After 22 years at the TDSB, Shelley Laskin has a message for her successors

After six terms and 22 years of public service, Shelley Laskin is stepping away from the Toronto District School Board. The board's longest-serving active trustee has decided not to run again on Oct. 26, when Ontario voters head to the polls and choose their next local leaders. In doing so, one ...

[Menschwarmers] Welcome to the golden age of Jewish NHL players

Ellin is off today, so we're bringing you the latest episode of Menschwarmers, The CJN's Jewish sports podcast. Hear more at thecjn.ca/menschwarmers Jewish hockey is having a moment. Players like Adam Fox, the Hughes brothers, Zeev Buium, Zach Hyman, Jake Walman and Devon Levi are having a majo ...

'This is my Torah scroll': Artist's travelling exhibit of 54 parshas opens in Toronto

Montreal artist Sheila Nemtin Levine didn’t plan to fulfill the final commandment of the Torah, which says that every Jew should write their own Old Testament. But that’s what ended up happening after she painted 54 vibrant, mixed-media canvases—one for each parashah in the Torah—and imbued each ...