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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Meet the Canadians behind the scenes of the Jewish movement to boycott the Beijing Olympics
Description: Marc Grushcow has never waded into political protests before. But this year, ahead of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, the Canadian retiree—and father of Rabbi Lisa Grushcow at Temple Emmanuel in Montreal —created a video aimed squarely at his country's athletes. He had hoped to convince them to not go to China, or at least forgo the opening ceremonies, in solidarity with the country's 12 million persecuted Muslim Uyghur people, including a million thought to be held in concentration camps.
But when he sent his video to the Athletes' Commission of the Canadian Olympic Committee, they declined to s...