PopTorah
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Welcome to PopTorah with Rabbis Knopf and Olitzky. Rabbis Michael Knopf and Jesse Olitzky are lifelong friends, pop culture fanboys, and lovers of all things Jewish. Join them every other week for a conversation about what’s going on in pop culture from a Jewish perspective and about Judaism through the lens of pop culture.
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The Rabbis Are Kvelling for Tay-Tay
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Extra! Extra! The Torah of ’The Paper’
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Holy Harmony in K-Pop Demon Hunters
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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‘Fantastic Four’ the World… or Just Your Family?
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Superman’ is a Super-Mensch
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Sound and Fury, Sisters and ‘Sirens’
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Mind Over ‘Mountainhead’
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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‘Seasons’ of Love
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Andor and the Art of Resistance
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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‘The Studio’ and the Shul
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May 22, 2025 |
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Before the Iron Throne, There Was the ‘House of David’
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May 08, 2025 |
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Searching for God at ‘The White Lotus’
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Pop-pourri — Comfort Watches for Tumultuous Times
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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‘You’re Cordially Invited’ … But Should You Go?
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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The Poppys: PopTorah 2025 Oscars Special!
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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No ‘Pain’, No Gain
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Knowing the ‘Complete Unknown’
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Over the Hill and Undercover: Being ‘A Man on the Inside’ and Out
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Charting New Waters with ‘Moana 2’
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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The Good, The Bad, and The ‘Wicked’
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Trying ‘Shrinking’ On for Size…Again
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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“Yellowstone” and the Battle for the Soul of America
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Right, Wrong, and ‘Agatha All Along’
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Who Wants ‘Nobody Wants This’?
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Grieving and Loving ‘Between the Temples’
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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How We Spent Our PopTorah Summer Vacation
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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We’re All In on ‘Inside Out 2’
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Dune: Part 2: More Power Dynamics, Less Platform Disruption
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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X-Mensches
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May 30, 2024 |
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Are the Rabbis STILL Cray-Cray for Tay-Tay?
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May 16, 2024 |
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Does Bustin’ Make You Feel Good?
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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‘Manhunt’ and the Pursuit of Justice
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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The Poppys: PopTorah 2024 Oscars Special!
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Making the Old ’Daily Show’ New, and Making the New Holy
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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A Pretty, Pretty…Pretty Good Episode
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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What’s ‘Good’ about ‘Grief’?
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Don’t Passover ’The Holdovers’
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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A Golden Ticket to ‘Wonka’
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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‘The Marvels’ and the Future of Marvel
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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It’s Not Whether ’Next Goal Wins’, but How You Play the Game
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Lifting Up ’The Fall of the House of Usher’
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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The Rabbis are (Still) Cray-Cray for Tay-Tay
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Special Episode — Israel at War
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Tradition and Change is ‘Elemental’
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Judaism and The Hollywood Strikes
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Inviting God and Tradition to ‘My Bat Mitzvah’
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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The Summer of Barbenheimer
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Grin and ‘Bear’ It
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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‘Indiana Jones’ and Longing to Live in the Past
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Should We Cancel ’The Flash’? Or did ’The Flash’ Cancel Itself?
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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The Rabbis Enter ‘the Spider-Verse’
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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’Succession’ and the Meaning of Success
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Guarding the Galaxy and Perfecting the World
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May 25, 2023 |
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Is ’The Mandalorian’ The Way?
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May 11, 2023 |
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How ‘Super’ is the ‘Mario Bros.’ Movie?
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Trying ’Shrinking’ On For Size
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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The Best Episode in ‘The History of the World: Part II’
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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The Poppys: PopTorah 2023 Oscars Special!
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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’The Last of Us’ and the Torah of the Zombie Apocalypse
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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‘You People’ and Black-Jewish Relations
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Oui, oui, ‘Emily in Paris’!
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Peeling Back the Layers of ‘Glass Onion’
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Sex, Lies, and Power in ‘The White Lotus: Sicily’
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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‘Fleishman’ and the ‘Trouble’ of Love, Loss, and Longing
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Wakanda Forever!
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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One Ring to Rule Them All
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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On the Couch with ‘The Patient’
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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’She-Hulk’, Combatting the Patriarchy, and Pursuing Justice
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Recapping the 2022 Emmy Awards
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Pop-pourri: Recapping Summer 2022
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Heroes, Monsters, and ’Stranger Things’
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’, Considering the Past and Confronting Failure
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s PopTorah
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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‘Severance,’ Working to Live, and Living to Work
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Does ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ Understand Its Subject?
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May 19, 2022 |
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The Price of ‘Winning Time’
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May 05, 2022 |
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‘Turning Red’ and Coming of Age
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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‘The Batman’: Justice, Vengeance, and the Darkness Within
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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PopTorah 2022 Oscars Special!
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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‘Inventing Anna’ and the Cost of Fame
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Back to School at ‘Abbott Elementary’
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Enchanted by ‘Encanto’
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Taking a Look at ‘Don’t Look Up’
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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’The Matrix Resurrections’, the Meaning of Freedom, and the Nature of Reality
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Hawkeye and Heroism
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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The Beatles: Inspiration, Transformation, and the Cost of Success
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Hanukkah Pop-pourri!
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Dune, Power Dynamics, and Platform Disruption
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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More Than ‘Only Murders in the Building’
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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‘Maid’ in America
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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We Believe in ‘Ted Lasso’
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Settling into ’The Chair’
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Checking Into ’The White Lotus’
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Greater Than the Sum of our ‘Parts’
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Learning From and Dunking on ’Space Jam: A New Legacy’
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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‘Loki’, Free Will, and Glorious Purpose
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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In ‘The Mitchells vs. the Machines’, Which Side is Torah On?
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Getting Down with ‘In the Heights’
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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‘Oslo’ and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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God, the Good and the Bad Batch
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May 27, 2021 |
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Torah Kombat
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May 13, 2021 |
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The Falcon and the Winter Solider and the Rabbis
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Don’t Ignore ‘Superstore’
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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The Torah of the Snyder Cut
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Nomadland and Life in the Wilderness
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Racial Justice, and Revolution
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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#FreeBritney and Judaism
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Grief and Assimilation, Now in ‘WandaVision’
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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‘Soul’, the Meaning of Life, and the Great Beyond
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Wonder Woman 1984 and Streaming Wars Redux
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Should We Be Happy About ‘Happiest Season’?
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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It’s Alright — The Rabbis are Saved by the Bell!
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Judaism and The Climate Crisis, and ‘I am Greta’
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Cultural Learnings From Borat For Make Benefit Glorious JCast Network Podcast PopTorah
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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The Torah Of Sorkin
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Does Torah Have ‘The Right Stuff’?
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Remembering the Notorious (and Righteous) RBG
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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‘The Boys’ are Back in Town
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Remembering Chadwick Bozeman (z”l)
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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An American Pickle: The Jewish Encino Man
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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The Rabbis Taste the Nation
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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The Torah of ‘Hamilton’
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Pop-pourri
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Black Lives Matter
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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‘The Last Dance’ and the Challenge of Greatness
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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‘Westworld’ And Questions About the Nature of Our Reality
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May 21, 2020 |
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Live! — Star Wars Day Special
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May 07, 2020 |
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Escape from New York
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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PopTorah Live! — ‘The Plot Against America’
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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Hunting for the Ethics of Memory and Revenge on ‘Hunters’
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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The Rabbis are Cray-Cray for Tay-Tay
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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‘Parasite’ and the Perils of Inequality
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Finding God in ‘The Good Place’
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Two Rabbis Talk ‘The Two Popes’
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Seek Peace and Pursue Peace — ‘1917’
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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The Torah of Star Wars
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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The Frozen Chosen
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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We’ve Got Disney+. What About Judaism+?
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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Special Episode — PopTorah at the Border
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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We’re Watching the Watchmen
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Joker’s Wild
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Are You Righteous? Or a Gemstone?
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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ICE Is The New Black
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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Let’s Hear It For The Boys
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Sep 12, 2019 |