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All Episodes

PopTorah — 156 episodes

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1

Hacking It: Ambition, Reinvention, and the Friends We Make Along the Way

2

Unfortunately, it was ‘Paradise’

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

Shadows, Light, and Stranger Things

8

‘Wicked’: For Good?

9

The Good, The Bad, and The ‘Wicked’

10

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

11

Pluribus’ and the Paradox of Peoplehood

12

Bringing ‘Nobody Wants This’ Before the Beit Din

13

The Rabbis Are Kvelling for Tay-Tay

14

Extra! Extra! The Torah of ’The Paper’

15

Holy Harmony in K-Pop Demon Hunters

16

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

17

Superman’ is a Super-Mensch

18

Sound and Fury, Sisters and ‘Sirens’

19

Mind Over ‘Mountainhead’

20

‘Seasons’ of Love

21

Andor and the Art of Resistance

22

‘The Studio’ and the Shul

23

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

24

Searching for God at ‘The White Lotus’

25

Pop-pourri — Comfort Watches for Tumultuous Times

26

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

27

The Poppys: PopTorah 2025 Oscars Special!

28

No ‘Pain’, No Gain

29

Knowing the ‘Complete Unknown’

30

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

31

Charting New Waters with ‘Moana 2’

32

The Good, The Bad, and The ‘Wicked’

33

Trying ‘Shrinking’ On for Size…Again

34

“Yellowstone” and the Battle for the Soul of America

35

Right, Wrong, and ‘Agatha All Along’

36

Who Wants ‘Nobody Wants This’?

37

Grieving and Loving ‘Between the Temples’

38

How We Spent Our PopTorah Summer Vacation

39

We’re All In on ‘Inside Out 2’

40

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

41

X-Mensches

42

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

43

Does Bustin’ Make You Feel Good?

44

‘Manhunt’ and the Pursuit of Justice

45

The Poppys: PopTorah 2024 Oscars Special!

46

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

47

A Pretty, Pretty…Pretty Good Episode

48

What’s ‘Good’ about ‘Grief’?

49

Don’t Passover ’The Holdovers’

50

A Golden Ticket to ‘Wonka’

51

‘The Marvels’ and the Future of Marvel

52

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

53

Lifting Up ’The Fall of the House of Usher’

54

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

55

Special Episode — Israel at War

56

Tradition and Change is ‘Elemental’

57

Judaism and The Hollywood Strikes

58

Inviting God and Tradition to ‘My Bat Mitzvah’

59

The Summer of Barbenheimer

60

Grin and ‘Bear’ It

61

‘Indiana Jones’ and Longing to Live in the Past

62

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

63

The Rabbis Enter ‘the Spider-Verse’

64

’Succession’ and the Meaning of Success

65

Guarding the Galaxy and Perfecting the World

66

Is ’The Mandalorian’ The Way?

67

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

68

Trying ’Shrinking’ On For Size

69

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

70

The Poppys: PopTorah 2023 Oscars Special!

71

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

72

‘You People’ and Black-Jewish Relations

73

Oui, oui, ‘Emily in Paris’!

74

Peeling Back the Layers of ‘Glass Onion’

75

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

76

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

77

Wakanda Forever!

78

One Ring to Rule Them All

79

On the Couch with ‘The Patient’

80

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

81

Recapping the 2022 Emmy Awards

82

Pop-pourri: Recapping Summer 2022

83

Heroes, Monsters, and ’Stranger Things’

84

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

85

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s PopTorah

86

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

87

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

88

The Price of ‘Winning Time’

89

‘Turning Red’ and Coming of Age

90

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

91

PopTorah 2022 Oscars Special!

92

‘Inventing Anna’ and the Cost of Fame

93

Back to School at ‘Abbott Elementary’

94

Enchanted by ‘Encanto’

95

Taking a Look at ‘Don’t Look Up’

96

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

97

Hawkeye and Heroism

98

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

99

Hanukkah Pop-pourri!

100

Dune, Power Dynamics, and Platform Disruption

101

More Than ‘Only Murders in the Building’

102

‘Maid’ in America

103

We Believe in ‘Ted Lasso’

104

Settling into ’The Chair’

105

Checking Into ’The White Lotus’

106

Greater Than the Sum of our ‘Parts’

107

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

108

‘Loki’, Free Will, and Glorious Purpose

109

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

110

Getting Down with ‘In the Heights’

111

‘Oslo’ and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

112

God, the Good and the Bad Batch

113

Torah Kombat

114

The Falcon and the Winter Solider and the Rabbis

115

Don’t Ignore ‘Superstore’

116

The Torah of the Snyder Cut

117

Nomadland and Life in the Wilderness

118

Racial Justice, and Revolution

119

#FreeBritney and Judaism

120

Grief and Assimilation, Now in ‘WandaVision’

121

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

122

Wonder Woman 1984 and Streaming Wars Redux

123

Should We Be Happy About ‘Happiest Season’?

124

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

125

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

126

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

127

The Torah Of Sorkin

128

Does Torah Have ‘The Right Stuff’?

129

Remembering the Notorious (and Righteous) RBG

130

‘The Boys’ are Back in Town

131

Remembering Chadwick Bozeman (z”l)

132

An American Pickle: The Jewish Encino Man

133

The Rabbis Taste the Nation

134

The Torah of ‘Hamilton’

135

Pop-pourri

136

Black Lives Matter

137

‘The Last Dance’ and the Challenge of Greatness

138

‘Westworld’ And Questions About the Nature of Our Reality

139

Live! — Star Wars Day Special

140

Escape from New York

141

PopTorah Live! — ‘The Plot Against America’

142

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

143

The Rabbis are Cray-Cray for Tay-Tay

144

‘Parasite’ and the Perils of Inequality

145

Finding God in ‘The Good Place’

146

Two Rabbis Talk ‘The Two Popes’

147

Seek Peace and Pursue Peace — ‘1917’

148

The Torah of Star Wars

149

The Frozen Chosen

150

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

151

Special Episode — PopTorah at the Border

152

We’re Watching the Watchmen

153

Joker’s Wild

154

Are You Righteous? Or a Gemstone?

155

ICE Is The New Black

156

Let’s Hear It For The Boys