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Welcome to JL;DR!
by Matt Sienkiewicz

Top Topics in Jewish Media

for August 31–September 7

September 7's Short Reads

Rationalist Judaism Happy Jumping Elephant Day!
JTA Jewish Federations launch Rosh Hashanah letter-writing campaign to Evan Gershkovich
Forward Vivek Ramaswamy is guest of a podcaster who says Jews ‘own almost everything’
JTA Vivek Ramaswamy is guest of a podcaster who said Jews ‘own almost everything’
JTA High Holiday services are set to return this year — with a new eternal flame — to a Texas synagogue damaged in a 2021 arson
Jewish Insider Israeli FM Eli Cohen faces heat for diplomatic blunders
Tablet A New Initiative for a New Year
Tablet Chaos Comes to Babyn Yar
Tablet The South’s Jewish Proust
Tablet Influencers Offer a New Challenge to Church Leadership
Tablet The Fiddler in a Desert War
Forward Meet Mark Robinson, the Republican frontrunner in the North Carolina governor’s race accused of antisemitism
Forward Cemetery manager says synagogue's insistence on temporary grave markers is about money, not Judaism
Forward Antisemities, right-winger, progressives... the ADL takes heat from all sides 
Forward Antisemites, right-wingers, progressives ... the ADL takes heat from all sides 
The Beinart Notebook Abdelfattah Abusrour on “Beautiful Resistance”
JNS Repentance reimagined
Forward Tired of dry honey cake? Here's how to make it moist and delicious!
JNS Meet, pray, love: Florida retreat helps singles ease into Jewish holidays
JTA Meet Mark Robinson, the Republican frontrunner in the North Carolina governor’s race accused of antisemitism
Jewish Currents The End of Widady - Settler attacks are rapidly depopulating Palestinian communities in Area C of the West Bank.
Forward An Israeli flag football team forfeited a game on Shabbat. It won the European championship anyway.
Ami Selection 2: A House of His Own // Raizy Friedman
JNS Engaging with Israel at the micro and macro levels
Ami Selection 3: Scars of War // Sara Wolf
Kveller A True Story of Jewish and Muslim Friendship Inspired This Children’s Book
Forward What the Jewish author behind one of America's most banned books has to say about censorship today
JNS Bipartisan legislators urge added measures to tackle campus antisemitism
Forward A museum snubbed Hollywood's Jewish founders. Its next exhibit hopes to make amends
Mishpacha Living Kiddush Hashem by Mint Media
Mishpacha An Original Selichos Event by Mint Meda
JNS Kyiv rabbi: Russian bombs don’t wait to see who is Jewish, Orthodox Christian
Forward The best ‘traditional’ vegan Jewish brisket
Lilith Those Long-Ago Crushes on Jewish Actors Playing “The Other”
JNS Palestinian group leader ‘takes advantage’ of US visa waiver trial period
JTA An Israeli flag football team forfeited a game on Shabbat. It won the European championship anyway.
Forward Why a German anthem shouted at the US Open enraged one of the world's top tennis players
JNS Flight with 12 Israelis makes emergency touchdown in Malaysia
JTA For cancer patients, the High Holidays can bring some unique challenges
New Voices “Israelism” Review: The Dangers of Pro-Israel Indoctrination
Ami Selection 1: The Check // Reva Braun
Moment Fiction // Mark Gertler in 13 Sketches
Emes Ve-Emunah Is President Biden a 'Useful Idiot'?
Moment Fiction // Yiddish Land
JNS German player stops match after Nazi slogan yelled at US Open
Jewish Table Fattoush with Green Apple and Grapes
Forward Elon Musk has made some disturbing comments about Jews. Here’s a list
JNS Adolescent court charges elderly German ex-guard for World War II killings  
Jewish Chronicle Shabbat times from September 8 to September 15
Forward Ireland’s first kosher restaurant in decades attracts local Jews and non-Jewish celebrities
JNS Why should Israel care about Africa?
Mishpacha Money Talks with Andrew Singer
JNS Turkish newspaper makes ‘ludicrously outrageous’ claims about Chabad
Forward The Top 25 versions of 'The Weight' — Robbie Robertson and The Band's song inspired by a Jewish bookseller
JNS The Abraham Accords dream is coming true
JNS Kushner to make first-ever Saudi-backed investment in Israel
JTA At pre-High Holidays roundtable, Eric Adams compares Israeli protesters and Netanyahu to family members in a ‘squabble’
JTA Ireland’s first kosher restaurant in decades attracts local Jews and non-Jewish celebrities
JNS Historic Knesset visit in doubt over Moroccan lawmaker’s health issues
Rationalist Judaism Mission: Impossible
Forward JCC cancels slavery-focused talk by Jewish author + Biden picks new ambassador to Israel
JNS Two wounded in Jerusalem terror stabbing
Forward How a quintessentially Yiddish sensibility created a thoroughly modern Don Quixote
eJewishPhilanthropy Rejecting the ‘false alternative’
Future of Jewish Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family?
Forward Four 1,900-year-old Roman swords in near perfect condition found in cave near Dead Sea
Forward ‘Tatami,’ a film inspired by Iran’s Israeli athlete boycott, is making movie history
Moment Daughter of History: From Holocaust Refugee to American Teenager with Susan Rubin Suleiman
Ami The Ger Tzedek of Ukraine // A conversation with Yaakov (Igor) Siniakov, who serves as a Jewish chaplain in the Ukrainian Army
Ami Is There a Mole in the State Department? // Iran envoy Robert Malley faces the heat as an Iranian newspaper reveals disturbing details
Ami David Sable // Doable
Ami Sorry, Media // Distaste isn’t license to Slander
JTA A Florida JCC canceled a slavery-focused talk with a Jewish author, citing ‘the current political climate’
Tablet The Temple of Zoom
Tablet Biden Backdoors Israel in the U.N., Rescinding Trump’s Recognition of Sovereignty over the Golan
Tablet The Toxic Gentleness of the American Theater
Forward NYC Mayor Eric Adams, refusing to pick a side, says Netanyahu and protesters both ‘love Israel’
JTA ‘Tatami,’ a film inspired by Iran’s Israeli athlete boycott, is making movie history
JTA Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s daughter boycotts namesake CUNY center over anti-Israel speech at law school graduation
Forward Makeup artist apologizes over prosthetic nose worn by Bradley Cooper in ‘Maestro’ film
JTA Makeup artist apologizes over prosthetic nose worn by Bradley Cooper in ‘Maestro’ film
Forward Jewish sailor Bill Pinkney, first Black person to circle the globe solo, dies at 87
JTA Israeli Hebrew didn’t kill Yiddish. As a new exhibit in NYC shows, it gave it a new nest to live in.

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