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Episode 11: Revamping Holocaust Museums, with Yasmine Lucas YouTube video by Association for Canadian Jewish Studies

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.

Episode 10: Memories of the Moroccan Jewish Immigration, with Yolande Cohen YouTube video by Association for Canadian Jewish Studies

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.

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.

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?

‘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

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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

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.

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 www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-professor-in-lon...

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.

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