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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Remembering the late Rabbi Bernard Baskin, 102, and other 'Honourable Menschen'
Description: From one of the Jewish community's longest serving rabbis, Bernard Baskin of Hamilton–whose funeral was Sunday, he Jan. 22— to the musical composer Leon Dubinsky of Nova Scotia, who died at age 81, Canada has lost many prominent community leaders in recent weeks.
Many were Holocaust survivors, but others came to Canada as immigrants from Scotland and America: they were actors, judges, furniture magnates, and scholars.
In the latest edition of _The CJN Daily'_s "Honourable Menschen", regular contributor Ron Csillag joins host Ellin Bessner to share some personal tributes to Baskin, Albert Reichmann, Jules Kronis, Maxi...