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The JCast Network Total Feed
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 20
This week, Brad and Steven talk about the State of the Union address, junk fees, disgraced former politicians, President Buden’s age (as if we needed…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 19
This week, Brad and Steven are back, talking about the soon to be released Alex Van Halen autobiography, the departure of Mitch McConnell, Steven’s turn…
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A Pretty, Pretty…Pretty Good Episode
HBO’s long-running comedy series, Curb Your Enthusiasm, starring legendary comedian and ‘Seinfeld’ co-creator Larry David as a slightly fictionalized version…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 18
This week, Brad and Steven talk about their daughters and college (spoiler alert: it involves ED and happy endings), IVF and Alabama, South Carolina, the…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 17: Better Late Than Never
In this week’s better late than never episode, Brad and Steven are going all in on pizza again, this time, while reminiscing about the long winter days…
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What’s ‘Good’ about ‘Grief’?
The new Netflix film ‘Good Grief,’ written, directed, and produced by star Daniel Levy, explores how we pick up the pieces in the wake of tragic loss…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 16 (or is it 19?)
Much of this week’s episode is devoted to a discussion about National Pizza Day. Brad and Steven talk about the merits of New York-area pizza and the…
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Don’t Passover ’The Holdovers’
Alexander Payne’s newest film, ‘The Holdovers,’ stars Paul Giamatti as a prickly, demanding teacher at an elite northeastern boarding school who gets stuck…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 15
This week, Brad and Steven talk about how they’re well on their way to being crotchety old men, and the elderly life that they envision for themselves…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 14
This week, Brad and Steven talk about the right-wing grift that they’re going to run, the lack of discussion around Trump’s cognitive decline, the…
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A Golden Ticket to ‘Wonka’
The new musical ‘Wonka,’ a prequel of sorts to the beloved Roald Dahl novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and the classic Gene Wilder film based on it…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 13
This week, Brad and Steven discuss college — the cost, the value, the job prospects, and the purpose. Unsurprisingly, they compare the process today to…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 12
This week’s episode is coming to you a bit later in the week than usual, but we’re trying to keep to our New Year’s resolution and doing the…
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‘The Marvels’ and the Future of Marvel
It’s been an interesting and somewhat challenging year for superhero movies, with the once seemingly invincible Marvel Studios showing signs of wear and tear…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 11
It’s the final episode of 2023 and this week Brad and Steven are talking about the year ahead and the one that just passed. For better or worse, the…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 10
This week, Brad and Steven are back after a brief hiatus. Their moods, however, continue to be “meh” in the extreme as they still try to make sense…
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It’s Not Whether ’Next Goal Wins’, but How You Play the Game
The new sports comedy ‘Next Goal Wins,’ directed by Taika Waititi, is based on the true story of American Samoa’s soccer team as it attempts to overcome…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 9
Much of this week’s episode is devoted to a discussion between Brad and Steven about the 45-minute video compiled and screened by the government of…
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Lifting Up ’The Fall of the House of Usher’
The new miniseries on Netflix, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher,’ is many things all at once: a love letter to Edgar Allen Poe, a gothic horror masterpiece, and…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 8
This week, Brad and Steven talk about their Thanksgivings and wonder if there’s such a sting as too many kinds of pie. They also discuss New York City…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 7
This week, Brad and Steven try to talk about subjects other than the war in Gaza. They discuss the latest Yankees woes and a little bit about Thanksgiving, but…
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The Rabbis are (Still) Cray-Cray for Tay-Tay
Taylor Swift’s long-awaited “Eras” tour was not only the pop cultural event of 2023, it was one of the most successful concert tours in music history. Each…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 6
This week, Brad and Steven continue to talk about the war in Israel and Gaza and its impact on Jews around the world. They talk about a number of physical…
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Special Episode — Israel at War
You know that Rabbis Knopf and Olitzky are lifelong friends, but did you know that they met as teenagers on a youth group summer trip to Israel? And did you…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 5
This week, Brad and Steven continue to talk about the situation in Israel and Gaza and the repercussions that are being felt around the US, particularly on…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 4
This week, Brad and Steven talk about the spillover effects of Israel’s war in Gaza — from the frontlines to the academy to the streets of…
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Tradition and Change is ‘Elemental’
Disney and Pixar’s latest animated feature, Elemental, became a sleeper hit at the box office this summer. Using the interaction of various elements as an…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 3
This week, Brad and Steven talk about the horrific Hamas terrorist attack against Israel. You can listen to The Amen Corner in lots of ways. On iTunes…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 2
This week, Brad and Steven talk about the flooding that hit New York, the normalizing of the abnormal and whether or not rabbis should talk about politics in…
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Judaism and The Hollywood Strikes
Back in May, film and television writers went on strike. Actors joined them on the picket lines in July, leading to the longest strike in Hollywood history…
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Amen Corner Season 8, Episode 1
Brad and Steven are back with the first episode of Season Eight of the Corner. They’re back to their usual banter about the Jewish High Holidays, the…
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Inviting God and Tradition to ‘My Bat Mitzvah’
Rabbis Knopf and Olitzky seem like they would be the target audience for Adam Sandler’s new Netflix movie, You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah. But…
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The Summer of Barbenheimer
It’s official — ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ are this summer’s unlikely “it” couple! This summer, we’re all obsessed with the World’s Most Famous doll…
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Grin and ‘Bear’ It
The Bear, whose first two seasons are currently streaming on Hulu, follows Carmy Berzatto, a rising superstar in the culinary world, as he seeks to revitalize…
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‘Indiana Jones’ and Longing to Live in the Past
Indiana Jones is back! The dashing, swashbuckling, fedora-wearing, bullwhip-cracking, Nazi-punching archaeologist is literally racing against time in his fifth…
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Amen Corner Season 7, Episode 34: The Season Finale
This is it, the season finale of the Amen Corner. This week, Brad and Steven talk about the heat (without using the word “schvitzing” even once!)…
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Should We Cancel ’The Flash’? Or did ’The Flash’ Cancel Itself?
‘The Flash’ was supposed to be an exciting reset for the beleaguered DCEU, even heralded by some Hollywood luminaries as one of the greatest superhero films of…
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Amen Corner Season 7, Episode 33: Trading Places
This week, summer is here and Brad and Steven are coming to the end of the podcast season. The guys lament the state of the New York Yankees and of New York…
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The Rabbis Enter ‘the Spider-Verse’
‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse’ is the sequel to the hit 2018 animated adventure ‘Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse,’ and the second part of a planned…
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Amen Corner Season 7, Episode 32: Brad Gets Covid
This week, after three plus years of flying below the radar, Brad finally got Covid. The guys talk about the dreaded “C word’ before pivoting to…
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Amen Corner Season 7, Episode 31: Special Guest Catherine Herrold
This week, Brad and Steven welcome a special guest to the Amen Corner, Catherine Herrold, associate professor of public administration and international…
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’Succession’ and the Meaning of Success
The hit HBO series Succession, currently in its final season, is deceptively complex. On the surface, it’s about members of a wealthy family vying for control…
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Amen Corner Season 7, Episode 30: The Article About CNN
This week, Brad and Steven are back at it, talking about members of Israel’s government getting into trouble on the streets of NYC. The guys spend much…
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Guarding the Galaxy and Perfecting the World
The MCU has been in a bit of a rough patch lately, but ‘Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3’ gets things back on track. The final chapter of James Gunn’s…
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Amen Corner Season 7, Episode 29: Hagbah Revisited
This week, Brad and Steven are talking again about an old favorite subject of theirs: hagbah. With Steven in Georgia for a family Bat Mitzvah, the pressure is…
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Amen Corner Season 7, Episode 28(a): The Mother’s Day Episode
It’s Mother’s Day this week and Brad and Steven discuss the day’s merits and its potential impact on gifts for Steven. They also talk about…
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Is ’The Mandalorian’ The Way?
‘The Mandalorian,’ whose third season is now streaming on Disney+, is one of the most critically and commercially successful offerings of Disney-era Star Wars…
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Amen Corner Season 7, Episode 27: The Coronation Day Episode
This week, it’s The Coronation Day Episode, where Brad and Steven spend as little time as possible talking about the British monarchy. Instead, they talk…
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Amen Corner Season 7, Episode 26: We’re Back!
After a two-week hiatus, Brad and Steven are back at it. In this week’s episode, the talk about the ongoing protests in Israel which Brad attended last…
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How ‘Super’ is the ‘Mario Bros.’ Movie?
Mario, Luigi, Toadstool, Princess Peach, and Bowser are back — this time in the cleverly-titled blockbuster animated comedy ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie.’ Is…
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Trying ’Shrinking’ On For Size
‘Shrinking,’ the new series streaming on AppleTV+ boasts some big names (have you heard of this guy Harrison Ford? We think he’s got a promising future…
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Amen Corner Season 7, Episode 25: The Disagreement Episode, or Maybe It’s NOT
This week, Brad and Steve talk about some of the things that they actually don’t agree on. There’s not a lot but they did manage to come up with…
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Amen Corner Season 7, Episode 24: Two Legal Decisions
In this week’s episode, Brad and Steven talk about the two HUGE legal decisions that were handed down this week. One is historical and precedent-setting…
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The Best Episode in ‘The History of the World: Part II’
It finally happened! The sequel to Mel Brooks’ 1981 classic ‘History of the World: Part I’ that nearly every Jew of a certain age has been waiting for is here…
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Amen Corner Season 7, Episode 23: The Origin Story
Due to popular demand (ok, Producer Darone and one other person asked for it), this week Brad and Steven tell the story of how they first met and became…
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Avoid the ‘Tussin
The guys are back this week to talk about Muhammad Ali and Colin Kaeprnick, Sylvester Stallone and Tony Danza, expensive restaurants and a big disappointment…
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The Poppys: PopTorah 2023 Oscars Special!
The 95th Academy Awards are fast approaching, and Rabbis Knopf and Olitzky are here to talk about the Torah of this year’s Best Picture nominees. In this…
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The COVID Episode
After a prolonged hiatus, Brad and Steven are back with the news that nearly three years into the pandemic, Steven finally got Covid, leaving Brad as the last…
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’The Last of Us’ and the Torah of the Zombie Apocalypse
The new HBO series, ‘The Last of Us,’ based on the acclaimed video game of the same name, explores what life might look like 20 years after a pandemic…
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A Little Bit Of Everything
It’s the Little Bit of Everything Episode this week; Brad and Steven talk about some of the feedback that they got from last week’s episode and…