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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Why did 300 Canadian Jewish leaders sign their names to an open letter published in newspapers?
Description: Three hundred Canadian Jewish leaders have put their names to a full-page letter that appeared in several prominent newspapers to express their concerns about whatâs happening in Israel and about the threats to democracy there.
The first ad ran in the Saturday edition of the National Post. A slightly different versionâusing more conciliatory language and supporting the âaspiration to find a renewed and applicable balance between the rulings of the majority of the Knesset and the rulings of the courtsââran Sunday in two popular centre-left and left-wing Israeli newspapers, Yedioth Ahronoth and Haaretz.
The organizers adm...