Editors' Note

Welcome to JL;DR!
by Matt Sienkiewicz

Top Topics in Jewish Media

for July 11–July 18

1. Jewish Identity
2. Jewish Community
3. Zionism
4. Holocaust
5. Netanyahu
6. Jewish Education
7. Trump Administration
8. Jewish History
9. Iran
10. Hamas

July 18's Short Reads

Recent podcast episodes

Shlomo Brody & Beth Popp: Demystifying Death and the End of Life [Loss 1/3]

15 Jul 2025 · 18forty

The Autopen Scandal Is a Very Big Deal

14 Jul 2025 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

'It's my gift to the world': Why this Canadian artist painted all 54 chapters of the Torah

14 Jul 2025 · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

The U.S. and Canada are running out of Reform rabbis. Look who's taking their place

14 Jul 2025 · Haaretz Weekly

Time and Space in the Thousand-Year Reich

14 Jul 2025 · Tel Aviv Review

Michael Oren: 'We are living in biblical times'

14 Jul 2025 · 18 Questions, 40 Israeli Thinkers

What Matters Now to comic Guri Alfi: Israelis and American Jews must remain unified

15 Jul 2025 · What Matters Now

Waiting

16 Jul 2025 · For Heaven's Sake

Roots, Identity, and Belonging: A Journey Through African Jewish Heritage

15 Jul 2025 · Rivkush

Trump Admits He Was Wrong

15 Jul 2025 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Regional Perspectives: Israel's Wars in Iran and Gaza (Webinar Recording)

16 Jul 2025 · Israel Policy Pod

‘Deeply disappointed’: An Iranian Canadian dissident reflects on the brief Israel-Iran war

16 Jul 2025 · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

Dropping bombs and dialogue? Israel-Syria peace talks right now are ‘absolutely mind-boggling’

16 Jul 2025 · Haaretz Weekly

Why Trump Is Angry About Epsteinmania

16 Jul 2025 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

From Broadway to Jewish Advocacy: Jonah Platt on Identity, Antisemitism, and Israel

17 Jul 2025 · People of the Pod

7/19/25 – Shiur 521 – Jew vs. Jew: The Housing Fight Tearing Rockland Apart

17 Jul 2025 · Halacha Headlines

PBS, NPR, the Fed, Wuhan, and 'Jaws'

17 Jul 2025 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Rabbi J.J. Schacter on the Jewish Meaning of Memory: What does it mean to remember the destruction of the Temples?

18 Jul 2025 · Tikvah

Irwin Cotler still calling for action against Iran, after they plotted his assassination

18 Jul 2025 · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

Uncomfortable Gratitude: Deliverance from a Flawed Source – with Tamara Mann Tweel

18 Jul 2025 · TEXTing

Making “Safety Through Solidarity” More Than a Slogan

17 Jul 2025 · On the Nose

Yechezkel - Nature & Structure

17 Jul 2025 · Jewish History Uncensored

The great Cholent debate + Grok's wild antisemitism

17 Jul 2025 · Bonjour Chai

The “Means, Ends & Mean Ends” Edition

17 Jul 2025 · Promised Podcast

PBS, NPR, the Fed, Wuhan, and 'Jaws'

17 Jul 2025 · The Commentary Magazine Podcast