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November 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Our three rabbi podcasters unpack the love story between a rabbi and a podcaster – a story that, as Opinion Editor @phoebebovy.bsky.social puts it, is “an awkwardly-timed infomercial for Judaism”.

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November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
We start with our hosts: Avi Finegold, a rabbi and a writer with The CJN, and Yafa Sakkejha, a Canadian-Palestinian entrepreneur and volunteer with the Friends of Standing Together.

In the first episode, they meet face-to-face for the first time and just… talk.
October 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"That was always the joke when we were kids. Everyone claimed Shawn Green had gone to their synagogue on holidays, that they saw Shawn Green."

On today's Menschwarmers' ep: 'Every Jewish angle we could find to the Blue Jays’ World Series matchup'.
October 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
On the two-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre, the families of the eight Canadians murdered want Carney to show the same level of compassion for Canadian citizens who have been killed as they feel he has shown to the Palestinians in Gaza.
October 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Marvel comic books are on the curriculum at this Sunday school.

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October 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The least tax-efficient way to give is just cash, costing you roughly 50 cents on the dollar. Luckily, Canadians can use the Income Tax Act and flow-through shares to their advantage.

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September 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM