Editors' Note

Welcome to JL;DR!
by Matt Sienkiewicz

Top Topics in Jewish Media

for November 30–December 7

1. Hamas
2. Jewish Identity
3. Jewish Community
4. Gaza
5. Donald Trump
6. Middle East
7. Hanukkah
8. Netanyahu
9. Community
10. Chabad

December 7's Short Reads

Recent podcast episodes

Pardon Us

2 Dec · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

A Guide to Jealousy

2 Dec · TEXTing

Einat Wilf: 'Jews are never allowed to win, and Arabs are never allowed to lose'

2 Dec · 18 Questions, 40 Israeli Thinkers

Hunter Pardon, Day 2

3 Dec · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Yehuda and Ilana Turetsky: Why Would an American Rabbinic Couple Move to Israel? [Israel & Diaspora 4/5]

3 Dec · 18forty

Rabbi Adam Scheier slams Montreal police for instructing him to leave a street corner—for safety reasons

3 Dec · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

Netanyahu and Trump's 'creeping authoritarianism': 'It always begins and ends with women'

4 Dec · Haaretz Weekly

How to Change the Way We Think About Abortion, with Erica Pelman

5 Dec · Unorthodox

Israel at War...with Itself

4 Dec · For Heaven's Sake

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Iran's solution for the Jewish state problem

5 Dec · What Matters Now

12/7/24 – Shiur 492 – The new initiative to draft Chareidim into the army. Should Yeshiva boys draft into the all-Charedi “Chashmonaim” Brigade?

5 Dec · Halacha Headlines

There Are Nations in Crisis—Just Not Ours

4 Dec · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Jesse Eisenberg's Holocaust Road Trip

5 Dec · On the Nose

What’s Next for the Abraham Accords Under President Trump?

5 Dec · People of the Pod

Playwright Mark Leiren-Young explains why Shylock needed a revival in 2024

5 Dec · Not That Kind of Rabbi

Pushy Pencils

5 Dec · Bonjour Chai

Changing Sex Is Like Taking an Aspirin?

5 Dec · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Ceasefire in Lebanon

5 Dec · Israel Policy Pod

The “Breaking Ranks” Edition

5 Dec · Promised Podcast

Sounding the Alarm - with Yael Alexander

5 Dec · Unholy: Two Jews on the News

The Vilna Gaon’s Edits & Understanding Midrashim II

5 Dec · Jewish History Uncensored

University of Windsor cut a deal with a pro-Palestinian encampment in July. What’s happened since?

5 Dec · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

Bella Brannon and Benjie Katz on Anti-Semitic Employment Discrimination at UCLA

5 Dec · Tikvah

Whose Banana Republic Is This Anyway?

6 Dec · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Settlement revival? military entrenchment? What are Israel’s long term plans for Gaza?

6 Dec · Haaretz Weekly

American Realignment?

6 Dec · The Glue, with Eric Fingerhut

Sounding the Alarm - with Yael Alexander

5 Dec · Unholy: Two Jews on the News