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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Support group Ha'ikar offers a 'brave space' for young Canadian Jews post Oct. 7
Description: "On a scale of one to 10, how afraid are you?"
That's a conversation starter for the new youth discussion forum Ha'ikar, founded by two Toronto friends, which has served as a support group for Canadian Jews under 40 who have been affected by Oct. 7.
A few months after Oct. 7, the group started meeting monthly at Temple Har Zion in Thornhill, Ont., where co-founders Jacob Weiss and Jay Ginsherman had bonded as kids. They admit that they themselves never would have come to Jewish programs like Ha'ikar, but with the explosion of antisemitism in Canada over the past...