Editors' Note

Welcome to JL;DR!
by Matt Sienkiewicz

Top Topics in Jewish Media

for February 8–February 15

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

February 15's Short Reads

Recent podcast episodes

How to Be a Jew … Among Friends

12 Feb 2025 · Unorthodox

Shani Taragin: 'The ideal is for the Jewish People to live in the Land of Israel'

10 Feb 2025 · 18 Questions, 40 Israeli Thinkers

'Alma was a baby on October 7. She knows her father only as a poster'

10 Feb 2025 · Haaretz Weekly

Trump at the Super Bowl

10 Feb 2025 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Israel in Ceasefire – Faces of the Hostages

12 Feb 2025 · For Heaven's Sake

This Ontario town had a swastika burned into a soccer field. Now residents want to ban the symbol nationwide

11 Feb 2025 · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

How to Be a Jew … Among Friends

12 Feb 2025 · Unorthodox

Frieda Vizel: How the World Misunderstands Hasidic Jewry [Outreach 2/5]

11 Feb 2025 · 18forty

When Bibi Met Donald

11 Feb 2025 · Israel Policy Pod

Trump's Hostage Deadline

11 Feb 2025 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

The Man Who Sat in the Oval

12 Feb 2025 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Toronto’s school board votes on a new antisemitism report today. Here’s what’s at stake

12 Feb 2025 · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

Israel’s embrace of Trump’s Gaza plan is ‘atrocious, unthinkable and morally wrong’

13 Feb 2025 · Haaretz Weekly

Is This the End of Woke Capitalism?, With Jennifer Sey

13 Feb 2025 · Unorthodox

For Rabbi Aaron Rotenberg, environmentalism isn't adjacent to Judaism—it's a core tenet

13 Feb 2025 · Not That Kind of Rabbi

Diana Mara Henry and Gabriel Scheinmann on One Jew Who Fought Back against the Nazis

14 Feb 2025 · Tikvah

Dark Times for Ukraine

13 Feb 2025 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Gaza Wars Lessons, The Passuk Focus & Parsha Concept

13 Feb 2025 · Jewish History Uncensored

University of Michigan Regent Jordan Acker: When Antisemitism Hits Home

13 Feb 2025 · People of the Pod

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Trump's Gaza plan is a warning

13 Feb 2025 · What Matters Now

Serenity Now

13 Feb 2025 · Bonjour Chai

The “Sins: Past, Present & Future” Edition

13 Feb 2025 · Promised Podcast

The Adams Case

14 Feb 2025 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

2/15/25 – Shiur 502 – Trump's disengagement plan for Gaza – Is Gaza Halachically part of Eretz Yisroel?

14 Feb 2025 · Halacha Headlines

For Rabbi Aaron Rotenberg, environmentalism isn't adjacent to Judaism—it's a core tenet

13 Feb 2025 · Not That Kind of Rabbi

For Rabbi Aaron Rotenberg, environmentalism isn't adjacent to Judaism—it's a core tenet

13 Feb 2025 · Not That Kind of Rabbi

Israel in Ceasefire – Faces of the Hostages

12 Feb 2025 · For Heaven's Sake

Israel in Ceasefire – Faces of the Hostages

12 Feb 2025 · For Heaven's Sake