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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: How Canadians felt marching for Israel at the historic Washington rally
Description: The historic March for Israel in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14 is already being described as the largest public rally by Jewish people in American history, with an estimated crowd of 300,000 people gathering at the capital’s National Mall. Among them were at least 2,000 Canadians. Some were driven in on buses from Jewish high schools, such as Yeshivat Or Chaim and TanenbaumCHAT; some flew from Montreal aboard a plane chartered by Federation CJA; others simply drove themselves on their own dime.
One thing unites them: they all wanted to be part of the effort to support Israel, campaigning to fr...