Jonathan Slater
@profslater.bsky.social
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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The Free Palestine crowd isn’t fooling anyone.
When they gather outside our synagogues, they’re not protesting a war, they’re protesting Jews.
When they gather outside our synagogues, they’re not protesting a war, they’re protesting Jews.
December 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The Free Palestine crowd isn’t fooling anyone.
When they gather outside our synagogues, they’re not protesting a war, they’re protesting Jews.
When they gather outside our synagogues, they’re not protesting a war, they’re protesting Jews.
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.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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.
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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?
November 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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?
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‘We had to do the job of the police’, says group that rushed to protect London shul from Gaza mob
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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
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November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
‘We had to do the job of the police’, says group that rushed to protect London shul from Gaza mob
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Shameful
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.
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November 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Shameful
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.
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.
Vol. 42 (2025): Les Juifs et Israël 2024: Une enquête sur les attitudes canadiennes et les perception juives
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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...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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.
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.
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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/
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'
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October 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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/
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Saudi Arabia ‘is ready to sign Abraham Accords’, former Mossad chief reveals
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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
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September 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Saudi Arabia ‘is ready to sign Abraham Accords’, former Mossad chief reveals
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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 [email protected]. Find more information at parchmentmag.ca.
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Parchment is the only literary journal devoted to contemporary Canadian Jewish writing. We champion work that is diverse in aesthetic and national in scope.
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September 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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 [email protected]. Find more information at parchmentmag.ca.
Unfortunately, the rest of the caucus did not sign on, including Liberal MPs who ran on the Vote Palestine agenda last election.
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.
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August 31, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Unfortunately, the rest of the caucus did not sign on, including Liberal MPs who ran on the Vote Palestine agenda last election.
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.”
Episode 04: Revising Helen Weinzweig, with Ruth Panofsky
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August 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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.”
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According to @guardian.com, "Many cultures & empires left their mark – including Philistines, Assyrians, Romans, Byzantines, Persians & Mamluks."
But apparently no Jews.
The photo on the right shows a floor mosaic from the ancient synagogue in Gaza.
But The Guardian "forgot" that.
But apparently no Jews.
The photo on the right shows a floor mosaic from the ancient synagogue in Gaza.
But The Guardian "forgot" that.
August 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
According to @guardian.com, "Many cultures & empires left their mark – including Philistines, Assyrians, Romans, Byzantines, Persians & Mamluks."
But apparently no Jews.
The photo on the right shows a floor mosaic from the ancient synagogue in Gaza.
But The Guardian "forgot" that.
But apparently no Jews.
The photo on the right shows a floor mosaic from the ancient synagogue in Gaza.
But The Guardian "forgot" that.
Miriam Borden has studied the doodles and marginalia children in Canada scribbled in their post-War Yiddish primers. Follow the link for an informative and entertaining conversation in Canadian Jewish studies.
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Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies
Podcast · Association for Canadian Jewish Studies · Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies features dynamic, informative, and always thought-provoking scholarly discussions about new re...
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July 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Miriam Borden has studied the doodles and marginalia children in Canada scribbled in their post-War Yiddish primers. Follow the link for an informative and entertaining conversation in Canadian Jewish studies.
open.spotify.com/show/7LDp919...
open.spotify.com/show/7LDp919...