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Culturally Jewish

Join actors David Sklar and Ilana Zackon as they schmooze with creative Jews of all disciplines, taking you behind the scenes of what matters most to Canada's Jewish arts community—and why our cultural representation matters.

Episodes

Danila Botha's new book of short fiction wants to break the mold of Jewish Orthodoxy

25 Jun

Meet the singer who performs Yiddish opera from Holocaust survivors—and also Wagner

27 May

How a class of Dawson College theatre students are incidentally workshopping a controversial script about Zionism and campus politics

15 May

Remembering filmmaker Charles Officer, who 'cut through the ideology' with incisive storytelling

2 May

She saved 12 Jewish lives during the Holocaust—and Quebecois filmmakers are now telling her story

18 Apr

MAiD takes centre stage in a new comedy about the difficulty of preparing to die

27 Mar

Just for Laughs co-founder Andy Nulman on the comedy festival's Jewish roots—and recent collapse

11 Mar

From Nassau Street to United Bakers, a new family folk album waxes nostalgic about old Jewish Toronto

6 Mar

As Kanye West drops a new album, a new play in Winnipeg shines a harsh light on his antisemitic past

15 Feb

A new comic book spotlights Toronto's Ward—with a supernatural twist

31 Jan

Does Jewish representation actually matter in film and TV? A Jewish casting director weighs in

17 Jan

'A very dangerous precedent': Everything wrong with the Belfry Theatre cancelling 'The Runner'

4 Jan

Israeli-Canadian drag queen Gila Münster reflects on a year mired in right-wing protests and left-wing antisemitism

11 Dec 2023

In her new book, Ruth Rakoff tackles ultra-Orthodox Judaism, generational trauma and the death of her brother

30 Nov 2023

A new Canadian opera spotlights the legacy of Chiune Sugihara, the 'Japanese Schindler'

14 Nov 2023

'A more beautiful side of Israel': This Canadian-led photography collective is raising money for kibbutzim attacked by Hamas

2 Nov 2023

'It feels pretty hopeless': Jewish artists open up about working in a dominantly anti-Zionist industry

19 Oct 2023

'Controversial' Canadian artist Matthew Jocelyn just took over the Koffler Centre. What does that mean for its Jewish future?

3 Oct 2023

How Sarah Segal-Lazar went from Jewish Montreal to writing folk songs in rustic P.E.I.

19 Sep 2023

Forgotten Canadian sports icon Bobbie Rosenfeld gets an onstage revival in Barrie, Ont.

6 Sep 2023