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.
Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies returns for a second season. In this first episode, I sit down with librarian, food historian, and genealogist Kaye Prince-Hollenberg.
Jewish Community Cookbooks and the Women Who Wrote Them, with Kaye Prince-Hollenberg
YouTube video by Association for Canadian Jewish Studies
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September 25, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies returns for a second season. In this first episode, I sit down with librarian, food historian, and genealogist Kaye Prince-Hollenberg.
Simon Fraser University Prof. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun delivers the Marshall McLuhan Initiative lecture, “Large Language Models, Learning, and the Limits of Sadistic Knowledge,” at the 2026 Media Ecology Association convention in Winnipeg, June 27.
June 27, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Simon Fraser University Prof. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun delivers the Marshall McLuhan Initiative lecture, “Large Language Models, Learning, and the Limits of Sadistic Knowledge,” at the 2026 Media Ecology Association convention in Winnipeg, June 27.
In this episode of Tête-à-tête, recorded live at this year’s ACJS conference, I’m joined by curator and writer Evelyn Tauben, founder of FENTSTER, for a conversation about ways her project, SHVILIM, is charting a new approach to educating about antisemitism.
Episode 14: Addressing Antisemitism in and through the Arts, with Evelyn Tauben
YouTube video by Association for Canadian Jewish Studies
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June 26, 2026 at 2:36 AM
In this episode of Tête-à-tête, recorded live at this year’s ACJS conference, I’m joined by curator and writer Evelyn Tauben, founder of FENTSTER, for a conversation about ways her project, SHVILIM, is charting a new approach to educating about antisemitism.
The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies welcomed about 200 guests last week to its annual conference at York University’s Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies. With 55 presenters from Canada and abroad, the gathering might have been the largest annual conference in the ACJS’s 50-year history.
June 7, 2026 at 10:05 PM
The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies welcomed about 200 guests last week to its annual conference at York University’s Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies. With 55 presenters from Canada and abroad, the gathering might have been the largest annual conference in the ACJS’s 50-year history.
The May episode of Tête-à-tête is now available: “Parchment and the Meaning of Canadian Jewish Literature.” Parchment, the only literary journal devoted to contemporary Canadian Jewish writing, is back! In this episode, I sit down with Parchment’s new editor-in-chief, Orly Zebak.
Episode 13: Parchment and the Meaning of Canadian Jewish Literature, with Orly Zebak
YouTube video by Association for Canadian Jewish Studies
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May 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
The May episode of Tête-à-tête is now available: “Parchment and the Meaning of Canadian Jewish Literature.” Parchment, the only literary journal devoted to contemporary Canadian Jewish writing, is back! In this episode, I sit down with Parchment’s new editor-in-chief, Orly Zebak.
The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies 2026 Annual Conference is just days away!
Join us May 31–June 1 at York University.
View the full program here.
Join us May 31–June 1 at York University.
View the full program here.
acjs-aejc.ca
May 21, 2026 at 3:58 AM
The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies 2026 Annual Conference is just days away!
Join us May 31–June 1 at York University.
View the full program here.
Join us May 31–June 1 at York University.
View the full program here.
Theresa Tova is synonymous with the Canadian Jewish musical stage and will soon be starring as Yente in the first-ever Canadian production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish. Theresa joins me on Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies for a wide-ranging conversation.
Episode 12: Fiddler on the Roof, Yiddish Divas, and a Life in Canadian Jewish Theatre, with There...
YouTube video by Association for Canadian Jewish Studies
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May 1, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Theresa Tova is synonymous with the Canadian Jewish musical stage and will soon be starring as Yente in the first-ever Canadian production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish. Theresa joins me on Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies for a wide-ranging conversation.
On apprend le décès du grand penseur juif Armand Abécassis.
Armand Abecassis:
L'excellence du franco-judaïsme
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April 26, 2026 at 3:16 PM
On apprend le décès du grand penseur juif Armand Abécassis.
Parchment is the only publication devoted to Canadian Jewish literary output. You can pre-order your subscription to Parchment today.
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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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April 16, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Parchment is the only publication devoted to Canadian Jewish literary output. You can pre-order your subscription to Parchment today.
In the current episode of Tête-à-Tête, I sit down with University of Toronto’s Prof. Yasmine Lucas for a conversation about Holocaust museums and the sometimes visceral experience they can evoke, known as “Holocaust sublime.” Listen at the link.
Episode 11: Revamping Holocaust Museums, with Yasmine Lucas
YouTube video by Association for Canadian Jewish Studies
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March 24, 2026 at 11:48 PM
In the current episode of Tête-à-Tête, I sit down with University of Toronto’s Prof. Yasmine Lucas for a conversation about Holocaust museums and the sometimes visceral experience they can evoke, known as “Holocaust sublime.” Listen at the link.
B’nai Brith pressing Quebec hard to act on surging antisemitism, while warning secularism bill could strip away religious rights.
thecjn.ca
March 19, 2026 at 3:21 PM
B’nai Brith pressing Quebec hard to act on surging antisemitism, while warning secularism bill could strip away religious rights.
In this episode of Tête-à-tête, I sit down with Yolande Cohen, historian at the Université du Québec à Montréal and Moroccan Jewish immigrant to Canada, for a discussion about the histories she traces in her work and the ways those histories have been received by Canada's Moroccan Jewish community.
Episode 10: Memories of the Moroccan Jewish Immigration, with Yolande Cohen
YouTube video by Association for Canadian Jewish Studies
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February 24, 2026 at 6:13 AM
In this episode of Tête-à-tête, I sit down with Yolande Cohen, historian at the Université du Québec à Montréal and Moroccan Jewish immigrant to Canada, for a discussion about the histories she traces in her work and the ways those histories have been received by Canada's Moroccan Jewish community.
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.
Jonathan R Slater “The Relentless Hegemony of Artificial Intelligence"
YouTube video by InstituteofGS
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February 23, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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.
All Canadians, Jews included, deserve to be safe and feel safe — Anthony Housefather
thecjn.ca
February 19, 2026 at 12:23 PM
All Canadians, Jews included, deserve to be safe and feel safe — Anthony Housefather
Reposted by Jonathan Slater
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?...
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?...
January 27, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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?...
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?...