Editors' Note

Welcome to JL;DR!
by Matt Sienkiewicz

Top Topics in Jewish Media

for July 12–July 19

1. Jewish Identity
2. Zionism
3. Jewish Community
4. Holocaust
5. Iran
6. Trump Administration
7. Donald Trump
8. New York City
9. Netanyahu
10. Jewish Education

July 19's Short Reads

Recent podcast episodes

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

15 Jul · 18forty

The Autopen Scandal Is a Very Big Deal

14 Jul · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

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

14 Jul · Haaretz Weekly

Time and Space in the Thousand-Year Reich

14 Jul · Tel Aviv Review

Michael Oren: 'We are living in biblical times'

14 Jul · 18 Questions, 40 Israeli Thinkers

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

15 Jul · What Matters Now

Waiting

16 Jul · For Heaven's Sake

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

15 Jul · Rivkush

Trump Admits He Was Wrong

15 Jul · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

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

16 Jul · Israel Policy Pod

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

16 Jul · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

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

16 Jul · Haaretz Weekly

Why Trump Is Angry About Epsteinmania

16 Jul · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

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

17 Jul · People of the Pod

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

17 Jul · Halacha Headlines

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

17 Jul · 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 · Tikvah

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

18 Jul · The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

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

18 Jul · TEXTing

Making “Safety Through Solidarity” More Than a Slogan

17 Jul · On the Nose

Yechezkel - Nature & Structure

17 Jul · Jewish History Uncensored

The great Cholent debate + Grok's wild antisemitism

17 Jul · Bonjour Chai

The “Means, Ends & Mean Ends” Edition

17 Jul · Promised Podcast

Epstein's Book and Colbert's Cancellation

18 Jul · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

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

17 Jul · The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Epstein's Book and Colbert's Cancellation

18 Jul · The Commentary Magazine Podcast