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This week Shtetl on the Shortwave brings you Jews makin’ music. To start we have DJ and producer Erez Safar a.k.a Diwon, talking about The 5th Annual Sephardic Music Festival happening in New York this month. Then, we’ll hear from …



This week Shtetl talks to Israeli singer Yasmin Levy, “the soul of Sephardic music”. One of the few world music stars today who sings in Ladino, her music- infused with Flamenco, Turkish and Arabic influences- is beautiful, if not a little gut-wrenching.



Dear listeners,You might have guessed that Shtetl is obsessed with her Jewish identity. Is being Jewish a race, a belief system, is it in her genes? Her blood? Her memory? Is her mother Jewish, her great grandfather? Is the fact …



What do you think when you hear the words: “Jews for Jesus”? For many it is anger, for some curiosity or fear, for others indifference. Karl deSouza is an evangelist at the Jews for Jesus in Montreal. Tune in to …



The terrible two’s are here and Shtetl is ready! After two years of being that cute kid with the crazy big cheeks, Shtetl on the Shortwave is now a mature and sophisticated… toddler.This week we’re going to celebrate what was with a “Best of Shtetl”



This week marks that special time of year when all Jews drizzle their entire bodies in honey. A very sticky ritual, but we are a resilient people and can’t get enough of sweetness and torture all wrapped up in one! …



Tune in this week when Shtetl talks to Jonathan Goldstein, host of WireTap on CBC Radio and author of “Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!” Never have the heroes of Jewish lore been so human, so sexy,so neurotic and so silly …



Have you also been sitting by the lake this summer wondering how the Talmud (Rabbinical commentary on the Bible) might be relevant to your modern day existence?



What does a chick do with an inheritance of generation upon generation of rabbis for a family lineage? How does she pass that on? Do her Zaidie in drag, of course!



Tune in and hang out with Montreal’s socalled Yiddish hip hop guru…Josh Dolgin.