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by Matt Sienkiewicz

Top Topics in Jewish Media

for May 20–May 27

May 27's Short Reads

Recent podcast episodes

The Agony and the Ecstasy of "Jewish Matchmaking"

25 May 2023 · On the Nose

Highest Risk: 2025-2026 - with HR McMaster

22 May 2023 · Call Me Back

Miṣvot: Do They Require Intention/Kavana? - Dr Shana Strauch Schick

23 May 2023 · The Habura

Conversations We Love: Etgar Keret

26 May 2023 · Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Samuel Lebens: The Hard Problem of Prayer [Prayer & Humanity 1/5]

23 May 2023 · 18forty

'Secular Israelis Are Mad as Hell and They're Not Going to Take It Anymore'

24 May 2023 · Haaretz Weekly

SOLOMON

24 May 2023 · Jewish Lives

Can Zionists Speak about the Nakba?

24 May 2023 · For Heaven's Sake

The “God Gave My People the Torah at Sinai… and All I Got Was this Lousy Podcast” Edition

25 May 2023 · Promised Podcast

Leon Kass on Reading Ruth

24 May 2023 · Tikvah

"Resurrecting" Judaism?: Donato Manduzio's Journey

25 May 2023 · Jewish History Nerds

#140 - Sassoon Codex, Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk & R' Shnuer Zalman of Liadi Early Life

24 May 2023 · Jewish History Uncensored

Unorthodox 2.0: Ep. 364

25 May 2023 · Unorthodox

Samuel Lebens: The Hard Problem of Prayer [Prayer & Humanity 1/5]

23 May 2023 · 18forty

Leon Kass on Reading Ruth

24 May 2023 · Tikvah

A Good Rabbi is Hard to Find

25 May 2023 · Bonjour Chai

What Matters Now to Yair Zakovitch: Using 'Ruth' as a blueprint for creative halacha

24 May 2023 · What Matters Now

Linda Frum on fighting back (and winning) a defamation lawsuit the judge said was designed to gag her from criticizing an Arabic-language newspaper

23 May 2023 · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

Can Zionists Speak about the Nakba?

24 May 2023 · For Heaven's Sake

Unorthodox 2.0: Ep. 364

25 May 2023 · Unorthodox

What are the Jewish themes on the ballot in Alberta’s election?

24 May 2023 · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

A Podcast Programming Note

26 May 2023 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Deeeee Santis—and Ukraine

25 May 2023 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Run, Ron, Run

24 May 2023 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Is Scott Great?

23 May 2023 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Did Someone Say 'Debt'?

22 May 2023 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

The “God Gave My People the Torah at Sinai… and All I Got Was this Lousy Podcast” Edition

25 May 2023 · Promised Podcast

Hartley Garshowitz went to England to honour his uncle, the lone Canadian Jew killed in the audacious Dambusters Raid

25 May 2023 · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

S4E7 - Semitic sex appeal: Stacey Agdern on the unique hotness of Jewish athletes

25 May 2023 · Menschwarmers