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Welcome to JL;DR!
by Matt Sienkiewicz

Top Topics in Jewish Media

for December 2–December 9

December 9's Short Reads

Forward Harvard president apologizes, Penn alum yanks $100M gift as congressional antisemitism hearing fallout continues
Forward ‘The Zone of Interest’ asks: Why would a family want to live at Auschwitz?
Moment ‘Deeply Rooted’—Pursuing Reproductive Justice Through Art
Forward How a Jewish educator took the Hanukkah llama from TJ Maxx meme to teachable moment
Moment Opinion | For Israel: A Blank Check or Tangled Strings?
Forward 'We need a miracle': Lighting Hanukkah candles with the family of Israeli hostage Uriel Baruch
Forward Leonard Bernstein was far more Jewish than you'd know from 'Maestro'
Moment Top 10 Jewish Books of 2023
Forward Rabbi David Wolpe resigns from Harvard antisemitism committee over president’s ‘painfully inadequate testimony’ on campus antisemitism
Jewish Currents Progressive Zionists Choose a Side - In attending the November 14th March for Israel and refusing to call for a ceasefire, many progressive Jewish groups have cast their lot with the Jewish mainstream.
The Cholent What's Next for the Federation?
Forward Calling for genocide is antisemitic. Why couldn’t the president of my alma mater say so?
Forward Two-thirds of Americans say Hamas holds ‘a lot’ of responsibility for the war
Forward Love triangles and arias abound in this reconstructed 1911 Yiddish comic operetta
Jewschool Renewing Our Faith that the Few Can Win Over the Many
Forward Hate or just a crime? Either way, Jewish restaurants are finding support after vandalism
Emes Ve-Emunah Daas Torah and Elu V'Elu
Lilith Four Cozy Rom-Com Books to Make You Smile This Winter
Jewish Table Friday Kibbitz: Do You Have Any New Hanukkah Food Traditions?
eJewishPhilanthropy In turbulent times, we must keep fighting for human rights
eJewishPhilanthropy The bargain the Maccabees didn’t take (and we shouldn’t either)
Jewish Chronicle The Etgar Quiz no 252
Jewish Chronicle Yavneh College makes comprehensive top 10
Forward On the first night of Hanukkah, hundreds call for a cease-fire at a Manhattan menorah lighting
Tablet The Light of Your Return
Tablet Antony Blinken Is Hardly the Next Kissinger
Tablet Let the Sunshine In
Tablet Norman Lear, Pioneering Television Producer, Dies at 101
Jewish Insider Hostages’ families find all the services they need in one Tel Aviv building
Forward Finally, an event to honor the only American Girl doll who eats challah and owns a samovar
Between The Lines Spreading The Light: A Chanukah Bonus
Forward University presidents waffled in condemning calls for genocide. Jews are on our own as much as ever
Forward ‘All about light overcoming darkness’: How US Jews are celebrating Hanukkah with Israel at war
Forward How the Israel-Hamas war exposed a rift in Haredi Orthodox Judaism
Forward Hamas killed his family on Oct 7. At his bar mitzvah, he wore a Holocaust survivor’s tefillin — his grandfather’s
Forward J Street threatens to pull support for Israel military campaign if government does not change ‘conduct and attitudes’

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