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Let There Be Lanterns

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Chad Powers and the Trouble with Second Chances

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We Still Believe in ‘Ted Lasso’

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You Seem Pretty Sad for a “Spider-Man” So in Love

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The Odyssey and the Long Road Home

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A ‘Toy Story’ for the Anxious Generation

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‘Disclosure Day’ Asks: Can We Handle the Truth?

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Borrowed Time in The Boroughs

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

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Is The Mandalorian and Grogu the Way?

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Man in the Mirror: Fame, Myth, and the Making of Michael (Special Live Episode!)

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Faith, Friendship, and First Contact in Project Hail Mary

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Unfortunately, it was ‘Paradise’

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

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

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

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

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Shadows, Light, and Stranger Things

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‘Wicked’: For Good?

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The Good, The Bad, and The ‘Wicked’

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

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Pluribus’ and the Paradox of Peoplehood

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Bringing ‘Nobody Wants This’ Before the Beit Din

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The Rabbis Are Kvelling for Tay-Tay

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Extra! Extra! The Torah of ’The Paper’

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Holy Harmony in K-Pop Demon Hunters

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

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Superman’ is a Super-Mensch

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Sound and Fury, Sisters and ‘Sirens’

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Mind Over ‘Mountainhead’

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‘Seasons’ of Love

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Andor and the Art of Resistance

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‘The Studio’ and the Shul

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

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Searching for God at ‘The White Lotus’

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Pop-pourri — Comfort Watches for Tumultuous Times

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

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The Poppys: PopTorah 2025 Oscars Special!

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No ‘Pain’, No Gain

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Knowing the ‘Complete Unknown’

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

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Charting New Waters with ‘Moana 2’

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The Good, The Bad, and The ‘Wicked’

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Trying ‘Shrinking’ On for Size…Again

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“Yellowstone” and the Battle for the Soul of America

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Right, Wrong, and ‘Agatha All Along’

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Who Wants ‘Nobody Wants This’?

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Grieving and Loving ‘Between the Temples’

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How We Spent Our PopTorah Summer Vacation

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We’re All In on ‘Inside Out 2’

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

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X-Mensches

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

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Does Bustin’ Make You Feel Good?

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‘Manhunt’ and the Pursuit of Justice

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The Poppys: PopTorah 2024 Oscars Special!

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

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A Pretty, Pretty…Pretty Good Episode

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What’s ‘Good’ about ‘Grief’?

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Don’t Passover ’The Holdovers’

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A Golden Ticket to ‘Wonka’

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‘The Marvels’ and the Future of Marvel

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

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Lifting Up ’The Fall of the House of Usher’

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

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Special Episode — Israel at War

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Tradition and Change is ‘Elemental’

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Judaism and The Hollywood Strikes

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Inviting God and Tradition to ‘My Bat Mitzvah’

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The Summer of Barbenheimer

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Grin and ‘Bear’ It

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‘Indiana Jones’ and Longing to Live in the Past

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

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The Rabbis Enter ‘the Spider-Verse’

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’Succession’ and the Meaning of Success

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Guarding the Galaxy and Perfecting the World

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Is ’The Mandalorian’ The Way?

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

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Trying ’Shrinking’ On For Size

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

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The Poppys: PopTorah 2023 Oscars Special!

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

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‘You People’ and Black-Jewish Relations

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Oui, oui, ‘Emily in Paris’!

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Peeling Back the Layers of ‘Glass Onion’

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

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

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Wakanda Forever!

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One Ring to Rule Them All

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On the Couch with ‘The Patient’

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

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Recapping the 2022 Emmy Awards

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Pop-pourri: Recapping Summer 2022

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Heroes, Monsters, and ’Stranger Things’

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

96

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s PopTorah

97

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

98

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

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The Price of ‘Winning Time’

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‘Turning Red’ and Coming of Age