HeyJaredDilemmas On Screen: A Jewish Perspective
We take ambiguous moral situations in popular fictional movies and TV shows and analyze them from a Torah lens. We explore a range of issues that come up and examine them from a Jewish point of view. For example, can someone be so evil that there’s a point of no return?
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The Good Place. What's Heaven Like? How Do I Get In? And Is There Even A Jewish Hell? - Rabbi Moshe Friedman (opens the original)
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What if the afterlife isn’t a reward you cash in after death—but the natural consequence of who you became during your life? In this episode of Dilemmas On Screen, join Rabbi Moshe Friedman and I as we dive into The Good Place and its surprisingly deep exploration of heaven, hell, morality, and what happens after we die. We unpack the show's different versions of the afterlife and compare them with Jewish thought. Is divine judgment really a cosmic point system? Should everyone be judged by the
Superheroes. Vigilantes and Justice: Is Anyone Above the Law? – Rabbi Jack Abramowitz (opens the original)
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Should Batman be arrested? Was Captain America right to reject government oversight in Captain America: Civil War? Should Superman answer to the law, or only to his own conscience? From Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, and The Avengers to The Boys and Dexter, superheroes and vigilantes constantly face the timeless moral question: is it ever right to take the law into your own hands? In this episode of Dilemmas On Screen: A Jewish Perspective, Rabbi Jack Abramowitz and I explore superhero ethics, vi
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