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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: How a plate of herring is the secret to Jewish unity
Description: There’s something fishy about 21-year-old Jeremy Urbach, who runs Gishmak Herring. It’s a YouTube channel dedicated to reviewing forage fish. (Gishmak means delicious in Yiddish.)
It started as a joke during the pandemic. But now, two years later, the Torontonian’s funny takes on the Ashkenazi dish are reaching a new generation of fans of all flavours of Judaism and beyond.
Urbach is a graduate of TanenbaumCHAT high school, who studied at a yeshiva in Israel before enrolling in a business program at Western University.
His honest love comes from his South African grandparents’ recipes—eaten with the bow-tie...