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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: They don't have a shul or rabbi, but PEI's few dozen Jews just celebrated their first public Hanukkah ceremony
Description: Prince Edward Island doesn't have a synagogue or rabbi. But now, exactly 120 years after Jews first began their continuous settlement on the island, the small but active Jewish community of a few dozen families celebrated their provinces's first-ever public Hanukkah ceremony in front of the provincial Legislative Assembly building in Charlottetown.
This is the building where the Fathers of Confederation first met to found Canada in 1864. In 2021, about 60 Jewish islanders showed up on the lawn to witness the historic lighting of a three-metre-tall hanukkiah and celebrate their culture.
Joseph Glass, one of the organizers of...