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All Episodes

PopTorah — 155 episodes

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Unfortunately, it was ‘Paradise’

2

Sinners, Saints, and One Battle After Another: The 2026 Oscars Episode

3

Power, Persona, and Purpose in Marvel’s “Wonder Man”

4

If You Got It, Flaunt It: Mel Brooks at 99

5

Faith, False Prophets, and Fool’s Gold in Wake Up Dead Man

6

Shadows, Light, and Stranger Things

7

‘Wicked’: For Good?

8

The Good, The Bad, and The ‘Wicked’

9

Undercover on Campus: ‘A Man on the Inside’ Season 2 and the Purpose of Learning

10

Pluribus’ and the Paradox of Peoplehood

11

Bringing ‘Nobody Wants This’ Before the Beit Din

12

The Rabbis Are Kvelling for Tay-Tay

13

Extra! Extra! The Torah of ’The Paper’

14

Holy Harmony in K-Pop Demon Hunters

15

‘Fantastic Four’ the World… or Just Your Family?

16

Superman’ is a Super-Mensch

17

Sound and Fury, Sisters and ‘Sirens’

18

Mind Over ‘Mountainhead’

19

‘Seasons’ of Love

20

Andor and the Art of Resistance

21

‘The Studio’ and the Shul

22

Before the Iron Throne, There Was the ‘House of David’

23

Searching for God at ‘The White Lotus’

24

Pop-pourri — Comfort Watches for Tumultuous Times

25

‘You’re Cordially Invited’ … But Should You Go?

26

The Poppys: PopTorah 2025 Oscars Special!

27

No ‘Pain’, No Gain

28

Knowing the ‘Complete Unknown’

29

Over the Hill and Undercover: Being ‘A Man on the Inside’ and Out

30

Charting New Waters with ‘Moana 2’

31

The Good, The Bad, and The ‘Wicked’

32

Trying ‘Shrinking’ On for Size…Again

33

“Yellowstone” and the Battle for the Soul of America

34

Right, Wrong, and ‘Agatha All Along’

35

Who Wants ‘Nobody Wants This’?

36

Grieving and Loving ‘Between the Temples’

37

How We Spent Our PopTorah Summer Vacation

38

We’re All In on ‘Inside Out 2’

39

Dune: Part 2: More Power Dynamics, Less Platform Disruption

40

X-Mensches

41

Are the Rabbis STILL Cray-Cray for Tay-Tay?

42

Does Bustin’ Make You Feel Good?

43

‘Manhunt’ and the Pursuit of Justice

44

The Poppys: PopTorah 2024 Oscars Special!

45

Making the Old ’Daily Show’ New, and Making the New Holy

46

A Pretty, Pretty…Pretty Good Episode

47

What’s ‘Good’ about ‘Grief’?

48

Don’t Passover ’The Holdovers’

49

A Golden Ticket to ‘Wonka’

50

‘The Marvels’ and the Future of Marvel

51

It’s Not Whether ’Next Goal Wins’, but How You Play the Game

52

Lifting Up ’The Fall of the House of Usher’

53

The Rabbis are (Still) Cray-Cray for Tay-Tay

54

Special Episode — Israel at War

55

Tradition and Change is ‘Elemental’

56

Judaism and The Hollywood Strikes

57

Inviting God and Tradition to ‘My Bat Mitzvah’

58

The Summer of Barbenheimer

59

Grin and ‘Bear’ It

60

‘Indiana Jones’ and Longing to Live in the Past

61

Should We Cancel ’The Flash’? Or did ’The Flash’ Cancel Itself?

62

The Rabbis Enter ‘the Spider-Verse’

63

’Succession’ and the Meaning of Success

64

Guarding the Galaxy and Perfecting the World

65

Is ’The Mandalorian’ The Way?

66

How ‘Super’ is the ‘Mario Bros.’ Movie?

67

Trying ’Shrinking’ On For Size

68

The Best Episode in ‘The History of the World: Part II’

69

The Poppys: PopTorah 2023 Oscars Special!

70

’The Last of Us’ and the Torah of the Zombie Apocalypse

71

‘You People’ and Black-Jewish Relations

72

Oui, oui, ‘Emily in Paris’!

73

Peeling Back the Layers of ‘Glass Onion’

74

Sex, Lies, and Power in ‘The White Lotus: Sicily’

75

‘Fleishman’ and the ‘Trouble’ of Love, Loss, and Longing

76

Wakanda Forever!

77

One Ring to Rule Them All

78

On the Couch with ‘The Patient’

79

’She-Hulk’, Combatting the Patriarchy, and Pursuing Justice

80

Recapping the 2022 Emmy Awards

81

Pop-pourri: Recapping Summer 2022

82

Heroes, Monsters, and ’Stranger Things’

83

‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’, Considering the Past and Confronting Failure

84

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s PopTorah

85

‘Severance,’ Working to Live, and Living to Work

86

Does ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ Understand Its Subject?

87

The Price of ‘Winning Time’

88

‘Turning Red’ and Coming of Age

89

‘The Batman’: Justice, Vengeance, and the Darkness Within

90

PopTorah 2022 Oscars Special!

91

‘Inventing Anna’ and the Cost of Fame

92

Back to School at ‘Abbott Elementary’

93

Enchanted by ‘Encanto’

94

Taking a Look at ‘Don’t Look Up’

95

’The Matrix Resurrections’, the Meaning of Freedom, and the Nature of Reality

96

Hawkeye and Heroism

97

The Beatles: Inspiration, Transformation, and the Cost of Success

98

Hanukkah Pop-pourri!

99

Dune, Power Dynamics, and Platform Disruption

100

More Than ‘Only Murders in the Building’

101

‘Maid’ in America

102

We Believe in ‘Ted Lasso’

103

Settling into ’The Chair’

104

Checking Into ’The White Lotus’

105

Greater Than the Sum of our ‘Parts’

106

Learning From and Dunking on ’Space Jam: A New Legacy’

107

‘Loki’, Free Will, and Glorious Purpose

108

In ‘The Mitchells vs. the Machines’, Which Side is Torah On?

109

Getting Down with ‘In the Heights’

110

‘Oslo’ and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

111

God, the Good and the Bad Batch

112

Torah Kombat

113

The Falcon and the Winter Solider and the Rabbis

114

Don’t Ignore ‘Superstore’

115

The Torah of the Snyder Cut

116

Nomadland and Life in the Wilderness

117

Racial Justice, and Revolution

118

#FreeBritney and Judaism

119

Grief and Assimilation, Now in ‘WandaVision’

120

‘Soul’, the Meaning of Life, and the Great Beyond

121

Wonder Woman 1984 and Streaming Wars Redux

122

Should We Be Happy About ‘Happiest Season’?

123

It’s Alright — The Rabbis are Saved by the Bell!

124

Judaism and The Climate Crisis, and ‘I am Greta’

125

Cultural Learnings From Borat For Make Benefit Glorious JCast Network Podcast PopTorah

126

The Torah Of Sorkin

127

Does Torah Have ‘The Right Stuff’?

128

Remembering the Notorious (and Righteous) RBG

129

‘The Boys’ are Back in Town

130

Remembering Chadwick Bozeman (z”l)

131

An American Pickle: The Jewish Encino Man

132

The Rabbis Taste the Nation

133

The Torah of ‘Hamilton’

134

Pop-pourri

135

Black Lives Matter

136

‘The Last Dance’ and the Challenge of Greatness

137

‘Westworld’ And Questions About the Nature of Our Reality

138

Live! — Star Wars Day Special

139

Escape from New York

140

PopTorah Live! — ‘The Plot Against America’

141

Hunting for the Ethics of Memory and Revenge on ‘Hunters’

142

The Rabbis are Cray-Cray for Tay-Tay

143

‘Parasite’ and the Perils of Inequality

144

Finding God in ‘The Good Place’

145

Two Rabbis Talk ‘The Two Popes’

146

Seek Peace and Pursue Peace — ‘1917’

147

The Torah of Star Wars

148

The Frozen Chosen

149

We’ve Got Disney+. What About Judaism+?

150

Special Episode — PopTorah at the Border

151

We’re Watching the Watchmen

152

Joker’s Wild

153

Are You Righteous? Or a Gemstone?

154

ICE Is The New Black

155

Let’s Hear It For The Boys