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Does Torah Have ‘The Right Stuff’?

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 new Disney+ / National Geographic series The Right Stuff, based on the eponymous novel by Tom Wolfe, depicts the Mercury initiative, NASA’s early 1960’s program to send American astronauts into space. Focusing on Alan Shepard, the first American to leave the Earth’s atmosphere, and John Glenn, the first American to…

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