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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Progressive Jews are finding common ground—but not in the mainstream
Description: Since Oct. 7, 2023, many progressive Canadian Jews have found themselves increasingly unwelcome by mainstream community members and organizations. But instead of keeping quiet, they have, over the past nearly two years, created their own spaces to have open and honest dialogues about Israel-Palestine, and their own relationship to Judaism.
Recently, hundreds of these progressive Jews gathered for a series of peace summits in Toronto and Montreal, with smaller gatherings in Ottawa, Winnipeg, London and Vancouver. These coincided with a larger peace conference in Jerusalem now underway May 8-9, called It’s Time, helmed by Israeli and Palestinian peace activists, including the...