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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Rabbi Michael Dolgin explains how the Oscars commercial on antisemitism was made in Canada
Description: As the rabbinic leader at Temple Sinai Congregation in Toronto, Rabbi Michael Dolgin has gotten used to speaking to a crowd. But now Dolgin and an all-Canadian cast are appearing in a new commercial about combating antisemitism that was filmed completely in Toronto in January, mainly in the Kensington Market. The ad was commissioned by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, set up in 2019 by Robert Kraft, the American Jewish billionaire philanthropist and owner of the New England Patriots.
The ripped-from-the-headlines story shows how an American teenager's bar mitzvah service was interrupted by a bomb threat in Massachusetts...