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Newsmaker conversations from The Canadian Jewish News, hosted by Ellin Bessner, a veteran broadcaster, writer and journalist.
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July 3, 2024
<p>Birju Dattani is a Canadian human rights lawyer who worked in the Yukon and his home province of Alberta before being catapulted into the highest-profile human rights job in the country a few weeks ago. In mid-June, Canada’s justice minster announced Dattani’s appointment for a five-year term as chief commissioner at the federal human rights watchdog. But the ink was hardly dry on the Order-in-Council before disturbing allegations began surfacing about some anti-Israel social media posts and lectures he made a decade ago while a university student in England. Jewish groups and other researchers discovered he’d shared a panel with a virulent Islamic terrorist, protested outside the Israeli embassy and once shared an article that compared Israelis to Nazis. Now the federal justice Minister Arif Virani has launched an investigation—although he isn’t rescinding the job offer, despite calls to do so from CIJA, B’nai Brith, Canadian Friends of Simon Wiesenthal and the federal Conservatives. Dattani denies he is antisemitic, saying he didn’t do the things he is accused of, has apologized if the revelations caused harm to the Jewish community, and is confident he will be vindicated. But as we’ll hear on today’s episode of <em>The CJN Daily</em>, at least one prominent Jewish outfit has a hard message for Dattani: “Apology not accepted.” Shimon Koffler Fogel, the CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, joins from Ottawa to explain his position.</p> <p><strong>What we talked about:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Hear Michael Geist discuss his concerns about the new Online Harms law and the changes to the Canadian Human Rights Act and the powers it will give to the CHRC, on <a href="https://thecjn.ca/podcasts/will-canadas-new-law-to-regulate-online-hate-speech-be-killed-by-politics/" rel="nofollow">The CJN Daily</a>.</li> <li>Read Birju Dattani’s official statement on his <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7212169450723139584?updateEntityUrn=urn:li:fs_feedUpdate:(V2,urn:li:activity:7212169450723139584)" rel="nofollow">LinkedIn </a>page distancing himself from the allegations, denying them, and expressing confidence he will be vindicated.</li> <li>Learn more about the changes to the Canadian Human Rights Act as part of Bill C-63, introduced in the spring of 2024, in <a href="https://thecjn.ca/news/the-detailed-plans-for-a-canadian-law-that-regulates-hate-speech-online-are-seen-as-a-good-start-by-jewish-groups/" rel="nofollow">The CJN</a>.</li> <li>Read the order in council appointing Birju Dattani to the new position, on the <a href="https://orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.php?attach=45696&lang=en" rel="nofollow">Government of Canada</a>’s website.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Credits:</strong></p> <p><em>The CJN Daily</em> is written and hosted by Ellin Bessner (<a href="https://twitter.com/ebessner" rel="nofollow">@ebessner</a> on Twitter). Zachary Kauffman is the producer. Michael Fraiman is the executive producer. Our theme music is by <a href="https://www.dovbecklevine.com/" rel="nofollow">Dov Beck-Levine</a>. We’re a member of <a href="https://www.thecjn.ca/podcasts/" rel="nofollow">The CJN Podcast Network</a>. To subscribe to this podcast, please <a href="https://thecjn.ca/arts/podcast-how-to/" rel="nofollow">watch this video.</a> Donate to The CJN and receive a charitable tax receipt <a href="https://thecjn.ca/donate/" rel="nofollow">by clicking here</a>. Hear why The CJN is <a href="https://thecjn.ca/podcasts/givingtuesday/" rel="nofollow">important to me.</a></p>
June 11, 2024
<p>Alexandria Fanjoy Silver enjoys being a proud and loud advocate for Toronto's Jewish community, even though she only became an "official" Jew in 2009. Her parents brought her up as a member of the Anglican Church; yet, while growing up, she always felt an "obsession" and a pull towards Judaism. And so, as a university student in 2007, after visiting to the Nazi death camps in Poland, she decided to go through the conversion process. (There wouldn't be a Jewish man in her personal life until several years later.)</p> <p>Tonight, as Jews around the world mark the annual harvest festival of Shavuot, the theme of conversion is part of synagogue observances: the <em>Book of Ruth</em> is read, which tells the Bible story of a non-Jewish widow who chose to remain part her late husband's Jewish family, and is widely considered the religion's first recorded "convert".</p> <p>While it is usually not considered good manners to ask a convert why they converted, Alexandria Fanjoy Silver agreed to join <em>The CJN Daily</em> to share her journey and explain what it's been like to live as a Jew—especially now, after Oct. 7, when her choice directly impacts her non-Jewish family members.</p> <p><strong>What we talked about:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Read Alexandria Fanjoy Silver’s PhD <a href="https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/89744" rel="nofollow">thesis</a> on whether the March of the Living is good or bad for participants</li> <li>Follow Alexandria Fanjoy Silver’s regular columns in the <a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/an-alternative-history-of-the-media-on-terrorist-hostage-crises/" rel="nofollow">Times of Israel</a></li> <li>Make her <a href="https://bitesizedhistory.substack.com/p/the-bread-of-seven-heavens-and-two?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3Qgcatj6cL3iE1nkbaIvs9yN9o3BwrnAytQy3MxWf3Nzw8aJd19UeoMfY_aem_AdkxexJv8prsK9fXGe4GEYWTGfnmNVLRE_DuV306cf98hsiSyNWMHbxlOJUKvEMMVnabQQa1ZQz2PoF94JRORm5p" rel="nofollow">Seven Heaven’s challah</a> for Shavuot and learn about the traditional Sephardic recipe</li> </ul> <p><strong>Credits:</strong></p> <p><em>The CJN Daily</em> is written and hosted by Ellin Bessner (<a href="https://twitter.com/ebessner" rel="nofollow">@ebessner</a> on Twitter). Zachary Kauffman is the producer. Michael Fraiman is the executive producer. Our theme music is by <a href="https://www.dovbecklevine.com/" rel="nofollow">Dov Beck-Levine</a>. We’re a member of <a href="https://www.thecjn.ca/podcasts/" rel="nofollow">The CJN Podcast Network</a>. To subscribe to this podcast, please <a href="https://thecjn.ca/arts/podcast-how-to/" rel="nofollow">watch this video.</a> Donate to The CJN and receive a charitable tax receipt <a href="https://thecjn.ca/donate/" rel="nofollow">by clicking here</a>. Hear why The CJN is <a href="https://thecjn.ca/podcasts/givingtuesday/" rel="nofollow">important to me.</a></p>
April 16, 2024
<p><strong>Show notes:</strong></p> <p>In just a few weeks, Ruby Grinberg will be packing her red ball gown and heading to Montreal to compete in the 2024 Miss Canada competition. The 20-year-old Toronto-born political science student will vie for the tiara against 20 other young women in the venerable contest—a pageant that, when it started in the 1940s, was all about beauty and bathing suits, but these days is more about personality. Grinberg isn’t your typical pageant contestant. In fact, she actually entered the event as a bit of a lark. But she isn’t totally unqualified: she’s a world-champion public speaker, debating coach and award-winning community volunteer. She hopes to use her voice and upcoming national platform to raise awareness about cancer, a disease that has directly impacted her own family. However, Grinberg is also acutely aware that being a Jewish woman competing in a public event these days likely will open her up as a target for some ugly antisemitism post Oct. 7, which is why she’s played down that important part of her life… for now. To hear more about her strategy, Grinberg joins <em>The CJN Daily,</em> and later, CJN podcast producer Zac Kauffman tells the history of Connie Gail Feller, his aunt’s sister, who was the first Jewish Miss Canada in 1961.</p> <p><strong>What we talked about:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Read more about <a href="https://misscanada.org/ruby%20-g/" rel="nofollow">Ruby Grinberg</a>’s efforts to win Miss Canada, and learn how to vote</li> <li>Read about <a href="https://thecjn.ca/news/student-compete-teen-pageant/" rel="nofollow">previous</a> Canadian Jewish pageant contestants, from the <a href="https://thecjn.ca/arts/miss-canada-petite-winner-determined-make-big-difference/" rel="nofollow">archives</a> of <a href="http://cjn.ca/" rel="nofollow">TheCJN.ca</a></li> <li>Read about the first Jewish Miss Canada from 1962, <a href="https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107554" rel="nofollow">Connie Gail Feller</a> (Salomon).</li> </ul> <p><strong>Credits:</strong></p> <p><em>The CJN Daily</em> is written and hosted by Ellin Bessner (<a href="https://twitter.com/ebessner" rel="nofollow">@ebessner</a> on Twitter). Zachary Kauffman is the producer. Michael Fraiman is the executive producer. Our theme music is by <a href="https://www.dovbecklevine.com/" rel="nofollow">Dov Beck-Levine</a>. Our title sponsor is <a href="https://metropia.ca/" rel="nofollow">Metropia</a>. We’re a member of <a href="https://www.thecjn.ca/podcasts/" rel="nofollow">The CJN Podcast Network</a>. To subscribe to this podcast, please <a href="https://thecjn.ca/arts/podcast-how-to/" rel="nofollow">watch this video.</a> Donate to The CJN and receive a charitable tax receipt <a href="https://thecjn.ca/donate/" rel="nofollow">by clicking here</a>. Hear why The CJN is <a href="https://thecjn.ca/podcasts/givingtuesday/" rel="nofollow">important to me.</a></p>
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