Editors' Note

Welcome to JL;DR!
by Matt Sienkiewicz

Top Topics in Jewish Media

for October 4–October 11

1. Hamas
2. Jewish Identity
3. Yom Kippur
4. Jewish Community
5. Hostages
6. Resilience
7. Hezbollah
8. Iran
9. October 7
10. Gaza

October 11's Short Reads

Recent podcast episodes

'There was literally nothing to come back to': Oct. 7 survivor Thomas Hand shares his story with Canadians

7 Oct · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

The Memories We Hold: How October 7 Has Forever Changed Us

7 Oct · 18forty

Despondent, Unmoored, Hopeful: How Israeli Thinkers Feel After October 7

7 Oct · 18 Questions, 40 Israeli Thinkers

Re-Form: Mailbox

8 Oct · Unorthodox

'People say my son brought Oct. 7 on himself – as if he invited terrorists into his home'

6 Oct · Haaretz Weekly

Remembering and Forgetting: The High Holidays as a Time of Solidarity

7 Oct · TEXTing

What We've Learned

7 Oct · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Where Are the Men?

8 Oct · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Jacob Samuel wants audiences to know he's Jewish—and to make that tension funny

8 Oct · Culturally Jewish

Matisyahu: Teshuva in the Spotlight [Teshuva IV 5/5]

8 Oct · 18forty

Foreign policy in the Levant with Tony Badran

10 Oct · Unorthodox

'The Iranians have the ability to sustain a long and bloody war. Israel is vulnerable'

9 Oct · Haaretz Weekly

Israel at War – We are Not the Same

9 Oct · For Heaven's Sake

'We carry this pain. It doesn't break us': how Canadian Jews marked Oct. 7's anniversary

9 Oct · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

Gaza War Lessons II & Be’er Avrohom on Tehillim

9 Oct · Jewish History Uncensored

The Hurricanes and the Race

9 Oct · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Palestinian Liberation After the Destruction of Gaza

10 Oct · On the Nose

Dishy Vicar

11 Oct · Bonjour Chai

What Matters Now to Aviva Klompas: Fighting for public opinion, the 8th front

10 Oct · What Matters Now

The “Casting at Persians” Edition

10 Oct · Promised Podcast

Another Year - A Conversation with Jon and Rachel Goldberg-Polin

10 Oct · Unholy: Two Jews on the News

The Nova Music Festival Survivor Saved by an 88-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor

10 Oct · People of the Pod

The Year of October 7

10 Oct · Israel Policy Pod

Biden vs. Harris

10 Oct · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Samidoun: Why Jewish leaders and Pierre Poilievre want it declared a terrorist squad

10 Oct · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

Elliott Abrams on Whether American Jewry Can Restore Its Sense of Peoplehood

11 Oct · Tikvah

10/12/24 – Shiur 486 – What’s the role of a shul Rav during the Yomim Tovim? What are the most common and unusual questions being asked to our Rabbanim?

10 Oct · Halacha Headlines

Another Year - A Conversation with Jon and Rachel Goldberg-Polin

11 Oct · Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Biden vs. Harris

10 Oct · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

What We've Learned

7 Oct · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Foreign policy in the Levant with Tony Badran

10 Oct · Unorthodox

The Hurricanes and the Race

9 Oct · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Where Are the Men?

8 Oct · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Biden vs. Harris

10 Oct · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Where Are the Men?

8 Oct · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

The Hurricanes and the Race

9 Oct · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

What We've Learned

7 Oct · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Another Year - A Conversation with Jon and Rachel Goldberg-Polin

11 Oct · Unholy: Two Jews on the News