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All Episodes

PopTorah — 157 episodes

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1

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

2

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

3

Unfortunately, it was ‘Paradise’

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

Shadows, Light, and Stranger Things

9

‘Wicked’: For Good?

10

The Good, The Bad, and The ‘Wicked’

11

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

12

Pluribus’ and the Paradox of Peoplehood

13

Bringing ‘Nobody Wants This’ Before the Beit Din

14

The Rabbis Are Kvelling for Tay-Tay

15

Extra! Extra! The Torah of ’The Paper’

16

Holy Harmony in K-Pop Demon Hunters

17

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

18

Superman’ is a Super-Mensch

19

Sound and Fury, Sisters and ‘Sirens’

20

Mind Over ‘Mountainhead’

21

‘Seasons’ of Love

22

Andor and the Art of Resistance

23

‘The Studio’ and the Shul

24

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

25

Searching for God at ‘The White Lotus’

26

Pop-pourri — Comfort Watches for Tumultuous Times

27

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

28

The Poppys: PopTorah 2025 Oscars Special!

29

No ‘Pain’, No Gain

30

Knowing the ‘Complete Unknown’

31

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

32

Charting New Waters with ‘Moana 2’

33

The Good, The Bad, and The ‘Wicked’

34

Trying ‘Shrinking’ On for Size…Again

35

“Yellowstone” and the Battle for the Soul of America

36

Right, Wrong, and ‘Agatha All Along’

37

Who Wants ‘Nobody Wants This’?

38

Grieving and Loving ‘Between the Temples’

39

How We Spent Our PopTorah Summer Vacation

40

We’re All In on ‘Inside Out 2’

41

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

42

X-Mensches

43

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

44

Does Bustin’ Make You Feel Good?

45

‘Manhunt’ and the Pursuit of Justice

46

The Poppys: PopTorah 2024 Oscars Special!

47

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

48

A Pretty, Pretty…Pretty Good Episode

49

What’s ‘Good’ about ‘Grief’?

50

Don’t Passover ’The Holdovers’

51

A Golden Ticket to ‘Wonka’

52

‘The Marvels’ and the Future of Marvel

53

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

54

Lifting Up ’The Fall of the House of Usher’

55

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

56

Special Episode — Israel at War

57

Tradition and Change is ‘Elemental’

58

Judaism and The Hollywood Strikes

59

Inviting God and Tradition to ‘My Bat Mitzvah’

60

The Summer of Barbenheimer

61

Grin and ‘Bear’ It

62

‘Indiana Jones’ and Longing to Live in the Past

63

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

64

The Rabbis Enter ‘the Spider-Verse’

65

’Succession’ and the Meaning of Success

66

Guarding the Galaxy and Perfecting the World

67

Is ’The Mandalorian’ The Way?

68

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

69

Trying ’Shrinking’ On For Size

70

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

71

The Poppys: PopTorah 2023 Oscars Special!

72

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

73

‘You People’ and Black-Jewish Relations

74

Oui, oui, ‘Emily in Paris’!

75

Peeling Back the Layers of ‘Glass Onion’

76

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

77

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

78

Wakanda Forever!

79

One Ring to Rule Them All

80

On the Couch with ‘The Patient’

81

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

82

Recapping the 2022 Emmy Awards

83

Pop-pourri: Recapping Summer 2022

84

Heroes, Monsters, and ’Stranger Things’

85

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

86

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s PopTorah

87

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

88

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

89

The Price of ‘Winning Time’

90

‘Turning Red’ and Coming of Age

91

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

92

PopTorah 2022 Oscars Special!

93

‘Inventing Anna’ and the Cost of Fame

94

Back to School at ‘Abbott Elementary’

95

Enchanted by ‘Encanto’

96

Taking a Look at ‘Don’t Look Up’

97

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

98

Hawkeye and Heroism

99

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

100

Hanukkah Pop-pourri!

101

Dune, Power Dynamics, and Platform Disruption

102

More Than ‘Only Murders in the Building’

103

‘Maid’ in America

104

We Believe in ‘Ted Lasso’

105

Settling into ’The Chair’

106

Checking Into ’The White Lotus’

107

Greater Than the Sum of our ‘Parts’

108

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

109

‘Loki’, Free Will, and Glorious Purpose

110

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

111

Getting Down with ‘In the Heights’

112

‘Oslo’ and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

113

God, the Good and the Bad Batch

114

Torah Kombat

115

The Falcon and the Winter Solider and the Rabbis

116

Don’t Ignore ‘Superstore’

117

The Torah of the Snyder Cut

118

Nomadland and Life in the Wilderness

119

Racial Justice, and Revolution

120

#FreeBritney and Judaism

121

Grief and Assimilation, Now in ‘WandaVision’

122

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

123

Wonder Woman 1984 and Streaming Wars Redux

124

Should We Be Happy About ‘Happiest Season’?

125

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

126

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

127

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

128

The Torah Of Sorkin

129

Does Torah Have ‘The Right Stuff’?

130

Remembering the Notorious (and Righteous) RBG

131

‘The Boys’ are Back in Town

132

Remembering Chadwick Bozeman (z”l)

133

An American Pickle: The Jewish Encino Man

134

The Rabbis Taste the Nation

135

The Torah of ‘Hamilton’

136

Pop-pourri

137

Black Lives Matter

138

‘The Last Dance’ and the Challenge of Greatness

139

‘Westworld’ And Questions About the Nature of Our Reality

140

Live! — Star Wars Day Special

141

Escape from New York

142

PopTorah Live! — ‘The Plot Against America’

143

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

144

The Rabbis are Cray-Cray for Tay-Tay

145

‘Parasite’ and the Perils of Inequality

146

Finding God in ‘The Good Place’

147

Two Rabbis Talk ‘The Two Popes’

148

Seek Peace and Pursue Peace — ‘1917’

149

The Torah of Star Wars

150

The Frozen Chosen

151

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

152

Special Episode — PopTorah at the Border

153

We’re Watching the Watchmen

154

Joker’s Wild

155

Are You Righteous? Or a Gemstone?

156

ICE Is The New Black

157

Let’s Hear It For The Boys