Bizarro Torah

spark joyful connection to Jewish learning with playful experiments across pop culture, sci-fi, horror, and roleplaying games

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  • According to halacha, which actions is Azula liable for?

    According to halacha, which actions is Azula liable for?

    What if, according to halacha, nothing that Azula did was legally problematic? Read more

  • Horror and Holiness

    Horror and Holiness

    Horror and Holiness is a solo minicast that explores human encounters with the divine through the lens of the horror genre. Read more

  • Redemption arcs and Christian hegemony in fandom

    Redemption arcs and Christian hegemony in fandom

    As someone who studies Jewish texts as an entryway into Jewish ethics and values, the ways that majority gentile fandoms talk about characters transforming from villains to non-villains often strike me as reflecting Christian hegemony. Read more

  • Time to Rethink the American Jewish Community’s Treatment of Black Jews

    Time to Rethink the American Jewish Community’s Treatment of Black Jews

    The ways that Black Jews are used as symbols of Black-Jewish relations and why that needs to change. Read more

  • Numbers 13:32-33

    Numbers 13:32-33

    Thus they spread calumnies among the Israelites about the land they had scouted, saying, “The country that we traversed and scouted is one that devours its settlers. All the people that we saw in it are of great size; we saw the Nephilim there—the Anakites are part of the Nephilim—and we looked like grasshoppers to… Read more

  • Numbers 13:25-29

    Numbers 13:25-29

    At the end of forty days they returned from scouting the land. They went straight to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran, and they made their report to them and to the whole community, as they showed them the fruit of the land. This is what… Read more