The CJN honors influential Canadian Jews who recently passed away, including figures like Patti Starr involved in a political scandal, Harry Davis the boxing referee, Jack Prince who survived the Holocaust, engineer Alexander Eisen, Rabbi Dovid Schochet of Chabad Lubavitch in Toronto, and women's rights advocate Lita-Rose Betcherman.

Chana Weisberg recounts the selfless act of her late father, Rabbi Dovid Schochet, who spent a night in jail to assist another Jew in performing a mitzvah.