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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Mourning in Kamloops: How has the local Jewish community reacted?
Description: Last week, news broke that the remains of 215 children were found at a residential school in Kamloops, B.C. Local and national Indigenous communities have been mourning this tragedy for days since the revelation, while also commemorating the lives of these innocent kids, who were taken from their homes under longstanding Canadian government policy. The school operated for nearly 80 years, from 1893 to 1977, mostly under the eye of the Catholic Church.
The news has put Kamloops in the international spotlight. Across Canada, people have built shrines of children's shoes. Governments and schools have lowered flags. Teddy bears have...