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The Schmooze brings together the voices, programs, and stories shaping Jewish life in Calgary. Hosted by Don Schapira and Jared Shore, each episode features a community calendar, interviews with leaders and students, and highlights from across the city.This is your space to…
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The Schmooze Ep. 43 | Schmooze with Rabbi Nisan Andrews | Sukkot: A TIme for Joy (opens the original)
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After reflection and atonement comes a time for joy. Don and Jared welcome Rabbi Nisan Andrews of Calgary’s House of Jacob Mikveh Israel for a special Sukkot conversation about tradition, belonging, and community. Rabbi Andrews shares his journey back to Calgary, explains the meaning of the sukkah and the four species, and explores what these traditions can teach us about unity and the uncertainty of Jewish life. They also discuss renewed connections to Jewish identity after October 7 and how Is
Episode 42: Schmooze with David Friedland Building Bridges Through Business (opens the original)
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What happens when politics gets complicated, but business keeps moving forward? Don and Jared sit down with David Friedland, Executive Director of the Canada-Israel Chamber of Commerce, for a fascinating conversation about trade, investment, innovation and the enormous opportunities connecting Canada and Israel. David explains how the Chamber brings businesses, investors and entrepreneurs together, why Israeli expertise in areas like agritech, cybersecurity, energy, defence and technology matter
Episode 41: Schmooze with Captain Allen The History They Left Out: Zionism, 1948 & the Nakba | Part One (opens the original)
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What if the history of Israel, 1948 and the Nakba is far more complicated than the version most people encounter online? In Part One of a special conversation, Don and Jared sit down with the anonymous historian known as Captain Allen. A lawyer by profession and lifelong student of Jewish and Middle Eastern history, Captain Allen has spent more than two decades building an extraordinary historical archive, now numbering thousands of pages. Online, he uses that research to challenge viral narrati
Episode 40: Schmooze with Rabbi Leonard Cohen on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur & Community (opens the original)
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A SWEET NEW YEAR, A STRONGER JEWISH SELF As the High Holidays approach, Rabbi Leonard Cohen of Kehilat Shalom joins Don and Jared for a warm conversation about Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Jewish identity, community and growth. Rabbi Leonard explains why the High Holidays are not simply about fasting, guilt or tradition, but about reflection, reconnection and becoming a little more of who we want to be. One idea stands out: L+1 . Wherever you are, go one level higher. One mitzvah. One repaired rel
Episode 39: Schmooze with Tim Isberg | Read the Whole Paragraph | on Genocide and the Reality of War (opens the original)
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What happens when someone who has actually lived inside war listens to the way we talk about it from thousands of kilometres away? Tim Isberg spent more than four decades in the Canadian military, serving in Rwanda, the Middle East, Bosnia and Afghanistan. He worked as an unarmed United Nations military observer, investigated atrocities in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, dealt with child soldiers, lived and worked among Israelis, Syrians and Lebanese, and experienced firsthand both the va
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