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PopTorah

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Frequency: 1 episode/16d. Total Eps: 145

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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🇬🇧 Great Britain - judaism
06/12/2025
#93
🇺🇸 USA - judaism
17/11/2025
#72
🇬🇧 Great Britain - judaism
16/11/2025
#100
🇺🇸 USA - judaism
16/11/2025
#64
🇺🇸 USA - judaism
14/11/2025
#62
🇬🇧 Great Britain - judaism
13/07/2025
#86
🇬🇧 Great Britain - judaism
07/12/2024
#97
🇺🇸 USA - judaism
20/11/2024
#82
🇺🇸 USA - judaism
19/11/2024
#83
🇺🇸 USA - judaism
23/10/2024
#100

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Who Wants ‘Nobody Wants This’?

mardi 15 octobre 2024 • Duration 55:15

In this episode, we dive into the thought-provoking Netflix series “Nobody Wants This,” exploring its funny and sometimes cringey take on identity, community, and the challenges of belonging. Joined by special guest Rabbi Talia Kaplan of Congregation Beth Shalom in Overland Park, Kansas (whose hot take on the show recently went viral), Rabbis Knopf and Olitzky discuss […]

Grieving and Loving ‘Between the Temples’

mardi 1 octobre 2024 • Duration 39:55

In this episode, we dive into ‘Between the Temples‘, a quirky new indie comedy about a cantor grappling with a crisis of faith. Starring Jason Schwartzman as Ben, a grief-stricken cantor whose life takes an unexpected turn when his former grade school music teacher (Carol Kane) re-enters his life as an unlikely Bat Mitzvah student, […]

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

jeudi 14 mars 2024 • Duration 46:15

Jon Stewart’s back, baby! The influential Jewish comic who made ‘The Daily Show’ a cultural juggernaut before leaving in 2015 has returned, for a limited time, to his old seat. Does he have what it takes to make the show, and basic cable, relevant again? Is he the political savior we’ve been waiting for, who […]

Black Lives Matter

jeudi 18 juin 2020 • Duration 45:09

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. The the homicide of George Floyd at the hands […]

‘The Last Dance’ and the Challenge of Greatness

jeudi 4 juin 2020 • Duration 48:51

‘Westworld’ And Questions About the Nature of Our Reality

jeudi 21 mai 2020 • Duration 39:34

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. What’s Jewish about robots becoming sentient and plotting to […]

Live! — Star Wars Day Special

jeudi 7 mai 2020 • Duration 54:34

Escape from New York

jeudi 23 avril 2020 • Duration 42:02

PopTorah Live! — ‘The Plot Against America’

jeudi 9 avril 2020 • Duration 01:06:43

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. In the special live episode, recorded in the midst […]

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

Season 1

jeudi 26 mars 2020 • Duration 57:58

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. Amazon Prime’s new series ‘Hunters’ premiered to decidedly mixed […]