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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Atlantic Canada's first-ever Reform community kicks off with a virtual seder
Description: Historically, Canada's Reform movement has been most prominent in Toronto and Montreal. Head east of Quebec, for example, and all you'd find are Orthodox and Conservative shuls.
But that history isn't stopping Rabbi N. Siritsky from challenging the status quo. After working in Kentucky and holding virtual services for congregants in Florida, the Canadian-born rabbi has joined the thousands of home-seekers who flocked to Nova Scotia during the pandemic. Once there, they discovered many local Jews outside the traditional framework who were looking for ways to connect, including Russian newcomers, interfaith couples, LGBTQ Jews and those who...