Editors' Note

Welcome to JL;DR!
by Matt Sienkiewicz

Top Topics in Jewish Media

for December 6–December 13

1. Jewish Identity
2. Jewish Community
3. Middle East
4. Syria
5. Jewish History
6. Hamas
7. Iran
8. Holocaust
9. Gaza
10. Hezbollah

December 13's Short Reads

Recent podcast episodes

Inside the Middle East: How War, Ceasefires, and Trump’s Arrival Are Reshaping the Middle East

9 Dec 2024 · Decision Points

Why more Canadians want to convert to Judaism, especially after Oct. 7

9 Dec 2024 · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

'They're no Zionists': How Syria's rebels toppled Assad and what it means for Israel

9 Dec 2024 · Haaretz Weekly

Biden's Moment of Senile Amnesia

9 Dec 2024 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Whither the Abraham Accords?

9 Dec 2024 · Tel Aviv Review

Moshe Koppel: 'We won the war in Gaza'

9 Dec 2024 · 18 Questions, 40 Israeli Thinkers

The Blue Jays traded their only Jewish player and we've got mixed feelings about it

11 Dec 2024 · Menschwarmers

Mickey and Ortal Flaumenhaft: Diaspora Differences: Israelis Come to Teaneck [Israel & Diaspora 5/5]

10 Dec 2024 · 18forty

Deep Dive on Syria

10 Dec 2024 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Bernard-Henri Lévy and AJC CEO Ted Deutch on How to Build a Resilient Jewish Future Post-October 7

12 Dec 2024 · People of the Pod

The real story behind Canada Post’s new Hanukkah stamp starring Montreal’s peacock-shaped hanukkiah

11 Dec 2024 · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

The Demon Mangione

11 Dec 2024 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Fall of Assad : Perspectives and Lessons

11 Dec 2024 · Jewish History Uncensored

How to Save New York from Itself, with Nicole Gelinas

12 Dec 2024 · Unorthodox

Israel at War – Crossroads

11 Dec 2024 · For Heaven's Sake

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on the Fall of Syria and the Death of Baathism: How Arab intellectuals understand the latest ideological revolution

13 Dec 2024 · Tikvah

The Z Word

13 Dec 2024 · Bonjour Chai

What Matters Now to Ksenia Svetlova: Women are the canary in the Mideast coal mine

12 Dec 2024 · What Matters Now

Ex-Wray

12 Dec 2024 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

The “Judgement Days” Edition

12 Dec 2024 · Promised Podcast

Calls are mounting for Ottawa to convene an urgent national forum on hate crimes, terrorism and antisemitism

12 Dec 2024 · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

Israel and the Fall of Assad

12 Dec 2024 · Israel Policy Pod

The (deep) state vs. Benjamin Netanyahu: Inside the courtroom during the PM's testimony

12 Dec 2024 · Haaretz Weekly

12/14/24 – Shiur 493 – What it Takes to release an Agunah | Presidential Pardon – Pardons in Halacha – The Torah approach to pardons

12 Dec 2024 · Halacha Headlines

The Road from Damascus - with Richard Haass and Alexis Bloom

12 Dec 2024 · Unholy: Two Jews on the News

How to Save New York from Itself, with Nicole Gelinas

12 Dec 2024 · Unorthodox

The Road from Damascus - with Richard Haass and Alexis Bloom

12 Dec 2024 · Unholy: Two Jews on the News

The Road from Damascus - with Richard Haass and Alexis Bloom

12 Dec 2024 · Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Israel at War – Crossroads

11 Dec 2024 · For Heaven's Sake

Israel at War – Crossroads

11 Dec 2024 · For Heaven's Sake