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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Meet the rabbi who got stranded in Newfoundland on 9/11
Description: This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11, when al-Qaeda suicide attackers flew four planes into American landmarks, resulting in 2,977 deaths, including 24 Canadians. The planes crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
Rabbi Leivi Sudak didn't know any of this when his flight to New York from London, U.K., was ordered to land in Gander, Newfoundland. Rabbi Sudak was flying to New York to pray at the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson on 9/11. It was right before Rosh Hashanah—he planned to make the trip there and back in...