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Media ecologist. Emeritus professor of PR at SUNY Plattsburgh. Director Emeritus of SUNY Plattsburgh’s Institute for Ethics in Public Life and the college’s Jewish Studies Program. Board member of the Marshall McLuhan Initiative. Québec province is home.

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Jonathan R  Slater “The Relentless Hegemony of Artificial Intelligence"
YouTube video by InstituteofGS Jonathan R Slater “The Relentless Hegemony of Artificial Intelligence"

In fall 2025, I delivered a talk, “The Relentless Hegemony of Artificial Intelligence,” at The Players during the annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and Symposium sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics. Here’s a video of that presentation, just released by IGS.

23.02.2026 04:13 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Beryl P. Wajsman: Dear CBC — your anti-Israel bias is showing When public broadcasting tilts in ways that reinforce demonization rather than understanding, antisemitism flourishes

Defund now.

19.02.2026 13:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All Canadians, Jews included, deserve to be safe and feel safe — Anthony Housefather

19.02.2026 12:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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« Comme une roulette russe » | Le REM à l’arrêt près d’une journée sur deux en janvier Les temps sont durs pour le Réseau express métropolitain (REM). Ce mois-ci, le train léger a été à l’arrêt pratiquement une journée sur deux, au grand dam des usagers. Pour certains, la situation met carrément en péril l’achalandage à long terme et la crédibilité du projet, qui doit encore ouvrir deux autres segments d’ici 2027.
28.01.2026 17:13 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1

Have you ever heard of the “Canadian Führer?”

In the first 2026 episode of Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies, I speak with historian Tyler Wentzell, who has contributed to a forum on notorious antisemitic provocateur Adrien Arcand.

Listen on YouTube: youtu.be/xmjkv9rOPH4?...

27.01.2026 19:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Our Government is Failing Seniors with Liberal MNA Linda Caron - Life Unrehearsed | iHeart <p>Matt Del Vecchio is joined by Liberal MNA Linda Caron.</p>
26.01.2026 16:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The next massacre of Jews is likely to occur in Canada | Opinion In Canada, unchecked anti-Zionist rhetoric and weak enforcement have fueled a surge in antisemitic violence and fear.
16.01.2026 02:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ON THE SCENE: Do you feel loved by our country? Do you feel loved by our country? If so, why so; if not, why not, and what would it take to feel loved by our country? Such are the questions being asked by SUNY Plattsburgh and University of Rocheste...
19.12.2025 14:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hanoukka | Faisons briller la lumière malgré tout La présidente du temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom, à Westmount, explique pourquoi elle fêtera Hanoukka malgré la peur que peut inspirer l’attentat terroriste de Sydney, en Australie
16.12.2025 17:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Bondi Beach Massacre Murderous ideology does not stop at borders.
15.12.2025 03:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Higgins: This is what the Islamists in our streets want Mark Carney needs to wake up to the reality Canada could host its own massacre
15.12.2025 01:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Free Palestine crowd isn’t fooling anyone.

When they gather outside our synagogues, they’re not protesting a war, they’re protesting Jews.

09.12.2025 11:34 — 👍 66    🔁 18    💬 4    📌 0
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Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies | Association for Canadian Jewish Studies Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies is an interview podcast featuring dynamic, informative, and always thought-provoking scholarly discussions about new research that illuminates the...

In this episode of "Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies,” UBC historian Richard Menkis chats with me about editing with Pierre Anctil the collection, In a "Land of Hope": Documents on the Canadian Jewish Experience, vol. 1, 1627-1923 and its value for Canadian Jewish history.

07.12.2025 20:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hugo Boss grew company making Nazi uniforms | The Jerusalem Post In an article by Dr. Magdalena Ickiewicz-Sawicka, Hugo Boss's success is attributed to being the "creator of Nazi elegance," supplying uniforms to the Hitler Youth and the SS.
07.12.2025 15:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-investigates-shooting-of-two-palestinians-in-west-bank-raid-1ff397b5

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-investigates-shooting-of-two-palestinians-in-west-bank-raid-1ff397b5

Why, @WSJ.com, is it acceptable to include an estimate of the number of deaths of Israeli security forces while failing to mention how many Palestinians killed were combatants?

30.11.2025 10:25 — 👍 16    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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Jewish groups at Penn sound alarm over federal lawsuit seeking information on Jewish employees - Jewish Telegraphic Agency “Across history, the compelled cataloging of Jews has been a source of profound danger," said a letter criticizing the lawsuit.
25.11.2025 15:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘We had to do the job of the police’, says group that rushed to protect London shul from Gaza mob - The Jewish Chronicle Community outrage over ‘total failure of policing policy’ after crowd chanting ‘baby killers’ defy Met order to approach synagogue

‘We had to do the job of the police’, says group that rushed to protect London shul from Gaza mob

www.thejc.com/news/uk/we-h...

24.11.2025 15:03 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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What the US ambassador to Poland left out when he absolved Poland of Holocaust complicity - Jewish Telegraphic Agency “Many Poles ... were very happy about what was happening to the Jews,” the author's mother, a survivor, once wrote.
24.11.2025 15:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Annual Conference | Association for Canadian Jewish Studies Fifty Years of Canadian Jewish Studies York University, Toronto, May 31–June 2, 2026 The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies / l’Association d’études juives canadiennes is pleased to announce that...
19.11.2025 18:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Canada passport office refuses Israel as birthplace | The Jerusalem Post According to her video, the employee told her that the new Canadian policy was to write Palestine under certain Israeli cities in place of birth, after the recognition of Palestine by Mark Carney.

Shameful

16.11.2025 14:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Vol. 42 (2025): Les Juifs et Israël 2024: Une enquête sur les attitudes canadiennes et les perception juives | Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes Canadian Jewish Studies ... The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies encourages research on the Canadian Jewish experience through the disciplines of political science, sociology, economics, geography, history, demography, ed...

Les Juifs et Israël 2024: Une enquête sur les attitudes canadiennes et les perception juives

The editorial team of Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes is delighted to announce the recent publication of Brym’s “Jews and Israel 2024” survey in full French translation.

03.11.2025 00:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Israeli professor in London says masked students threatened to behead him Anti-Israel activists seek the dismissal of economics professor Michael Ben-Gad, who says they called him a 'war criminal' and 'Nazi'

Israeli professor in London says masked students threatened to behead him https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-professor-in-london-says-masked-students-threatened-to-behead-him/

23.10.2025 10:24 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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KINSELLA: Demonstrators' hatred for Israel is finally exposed Despite Trump-devised ceasefire, the protests have continued. Even though Israel did everything they demanded. Read Warren Kinsella.

torontosun.com/opinion/colu...

23.10.2025 10:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This won’t work unless there is visible policing and enforcement. If drivers know they can act like criminals, they will.

07.10.2025 22:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Saudi Arabia ‘is ready to sign Abraham Accords’, former Mossad chief reveals - The Jewish Chronicle Yossi Cohen has told the JC the Saudis will join other Arab countries in normalising relationships with Israel once the war is over

Saudi Arabia ‘is ready to sign Abraham Accords’, former Mossad chief reveals

www.thejc.com/news/world/s...

29.09.2025 15:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Home | Parchment Journal Parchment is the only literary journal devoted to contemporary Canadian Jewish writing. We champion work that is diverse in aesthetic and national in scope.

Parchment champions Canadian Jewish writing that is diverse in its aesthetics and national in scope. To be considered for our inaugural issue, launching Spring 2026, please send in completed pieces by October 1, 2025, to info@parchmentmag.ca. Find more information at parchmentmag.ca.

17.09.2025 13:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Housefather, 31 Liberal MPs lead call to action against rising antisemitism in Canada A Liberal MP and 31 of his colleagues are calling for action against antisemitism after an Ottawa stabbing police say was hate-motivated.

Unfortunately, the rest of the caucus did not sign on, including Liberal MPs who ran on the Vote Palestine agenda last election.

31.08.2025 20:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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PINSKY: Canada ignores history, rewards terror groups Germany enforces its hate laws with far more consistency than Canada and steadfastly refuses to indulge the fiction of a viable Palestinian state. Read more
31.08.2025 12:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Episode 04: Revising Helen Weinzweig, with Ruth Panofsky

The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies has just released the fourth episode of its regular podcast, Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies, in which I sit down with Prof. Ruth Panofsky to examine writer Helen Weinzweig's seminal 1989 short story "My Mother's Luck.”

31.08.2025 12:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Exclusive: Université de Sherbrooke med student at centre of Discord storm denies making antisemitic slurs “The environment is so bad and everybody is talking about it,” says a concerned parent
31.08.2025 12:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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