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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Let my shofars go: How the Passover story saved one woman's Judaica from Canadian border control
Description: When Sara Davis began exploring her Jewish roots, she decided to order a bunch of items from an online Judaica store based in Israel. She bought two shofars, two necklaces with a Star of David, a tallit and an Israeli flag.
Her package finally arrived in early March, but it felt lighter than it should have. When she tore the box open, she found the shofars were missing—replaced, instead, with a note by the Canadian government informing her that her items were being held at an Environment Canada facility in Quebec. The reason? The shofars were ma...