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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: What's Canada Day like for new Jewish immigrants?
Description: Etel Ergun Avimelek hasn't been able to meet very many people in Winnipeg yet. They arrived just last summer from Turkey, hoping to escape rising anti-Semitism there, but getting settled hasn't been easy. First they had to quarantine, then find a house, then get the kids settled in their new school—a Jewish high school in Winnipeg, Gray Academy—all while working new jobs and navigating pandemic life.
Ergun Avimelek, her husband and their teenage kids moved to Canada in August 2020 as part of the local Jewish federation's GrowWinnipeg program. The idea behind it is to staunch the...