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The Wandering Muse explores what it means to be Jewish through the lens of some of the most eclectic and talented Jewish musicians today.

Talking feminism on Shtetl. Women and video games, Gamergate and a new student-run Muslim-Jewish Feminist Alliance at Concordia University.

You won't see Miss Me's face but you can see her art all over the city walls. Check out street artist Miss Me on Shtetl and hear her rendition of the kol nidre.

Orthodox Jew Zrey Li was inspired by other-worldy signs (including a license plate) to bring his art to the streets. And, artist Adida Fallen Angel creates an epic library in the sea at Fresh Paint Gallery Montreal.

Mostly tons of unexpected Jewish music, and a little talk with former president of Green Party of Canada re.: Gaza/Israel. But mostly music!

Jewish restaurant owner Zane Caplansky sponsors Toronto Palestine Film Festival. 31 year-old Palestinian initiates the "Palestine Loves Israel" Facebook campaign. Hear from both of them on Shtetl.

Jaffa-based hip-hop band System Ali rap in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian and English. They sing about their lives and what it means to build the home and they'd like to live in.

On this episode of Shtetl we take a close up look at the story of African asylum seekers in Israel.

A Palestinian and Israeli settler in the West Bank talk about finding solutions in an area steeped in conflict. Plus, Canadian performance artist and witch doctor Michael Dudeck.

What was Serge Gainsbourg's big "Jewish" hit song? Why did Jazz legend Willie "The Lion" Smith speak so much Yiddish? In the mood for some North African trash-pop? Check out this episode of Shtetl on the Shortwave. It's a music special juste pour toi!

Check out this latest installment in our Shtetl Berlin series.  Next Year In Berlin focuses on Israelis living in the German capital. Click on the play button below to hear our guests hash out the eternal debates: Is Berlin the …

Tamara Filyavich was born in the currently contested Crimea of Ukraine. Tune in to hear her story & how she navigates the tricky territory of identity. Is she Ukrainian? Jewish? Canadian?

Enough Already! Us sun-starved Montrealers aren't taking this winter crap anymore. Tune in for ho Jewish tunes to melt the snow off all the sidewalks of the universe.

Ian Sternthal is fighting the good fight when it comes to the battle of the book. Young independent publisher, Ian Sternthal has tales to tell on Shtetl on the Shortwave.

How fashionable are sexual ethics and workers rights? On today’s episode we talk with Oren Safdie: son of architecht Moshe Safdie, cousin of Dov Charney, and the Montrealer who wrote Unseamly a disturbing play about the politics of sexual harassment …

WTF is going on?! Talkin' current events: SodaStream, the quenelle, Woody Allen & Quebec's secular charter. At the table: Fred Bohbot, Mireille Silcoff, Jess Salomon & Joseph Rosen. Live @11am 90.3fm in Mtl or podcast it later!

A Muslims and Jewish music collab: Epichorus band members Alsarah & Rabbi Zach Fredman talk Xmas lights, Fairuz, dialogue and Hebreo-Arabic love songs. Plus the kids from Kosher Jokes for the Halaladays!

What do rabbis have to teach us about relationships and about sex? Find out how the spiritually enlightened (and ordained) "do love".

Scroll down to play this week’s episode of Shtetl on the Shortwave. Disturbed by the new Gay Propoganda law in Russia? So was Montrealer Anna Goodson, so she put a call out to illustrators to design images in solidarity with LGBT rights …

Radio road trip to Berlin! Ukrainian DJs, Israeli sex workers, "degenerate" satirists, Roma art, queer bars, drag Passover seders, philosemitism, Jewish breathing lessons, memorial culture....currywurst!