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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: NDP leadership race: Who's the the 'least bad' for the Jewish community?
Description: Members of Canada’s New Democratic Party are meeting this weekend to choose a new party leader, with a decision slated for Sunday. And for the first time since the 1970s, a Jewish candidate has a strong chance of being elected.
Avi Lewis could follow in the footsteps of his late grandfather David Lewis, who led the NDP shortly after Avi was born. David Lewis remains the first Jewish Canadian in history to lead a national political party. (Annamie Paul led the Greens from 2020-2021)
But a lot has changed since his grandfather's reign. The ND...