Michael Rapaport's table manners, a Jewish moment on "The Pitt," and a show not enough people are talking about.

It's the January Jewish TV Report.

Hi friends! We’ll be back to deep-dive another show soon, but now, it’s time for your January Jewish TV Club update!

Michael Rapaport’s table manners:

One of the biggest “Jewish” stories of reality TV this month: Everyone hated Michael Rapaport on season 4 of “The Traitors.” Rapaport has since been booted from the castle, but while he was there, everyone hated the way he talked, loathed his game strategy, his personality and especially the way he shovels food from his plate directly into his mouth.

@accesshollywood#MichaelRapaport stands by his viral eating moment on #TheTraitors ... and yes, this is how he normally eats

My take is that he’s eating like a Jew running away from the Cossacks. I feel like inhaling your food as fast as you can with no decorum is very trauma-informed. But also, Michael Rapaport’s Jewish parents must have taught him better??

Are we buying his excuse that this is how he eats when no one’s watching. (Did you not see the bazillion cameras, bubeleh?) To be fair, I can get pretty feral with a bag of Bamba myself.

What do you think?

The Mother of Dragons and Jewish spies:

Peacock’s “Ponies” features not one but two badass Jewish spies — both fierce, fearless women, and one is even a Holocaust survivor. It tells the story of Bea and Twila, whose husbands are killed in a mysterious accident after the CIA stationed them in Moscow. The two decide to become agents themselves to get to the bottom of their late spouses’ deaths, and Bea, who is Jewish, even recruits her Holocaust survivor grandmother to help.

Bea is played by Mother of Dragons herself, Emilia Clarke, aka Daenerys Targaryen, and Bea’s Holocaust survivor baba, or grandma, Manya, is played by the legendary Dame Harriet Walter (“Succession,” “Ted Lasso”). The show was created and written by Susanna Fogel and David Iserson, with the former directing many of its episodes, and the latter serving as showrunner. Both Iverson and Fogel are Jewish, and Fogel directed “A Small Light” about Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank’s family in that famous attic.

I loved this show and desperately need a season 2.

‘Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!’ is so incredibly Jewish

If you were to drink every time the word Jewish is uttered in this 4-hour-long Mel Brooks documentary, directed by Judd Apatow, I would fear for your liver.

But seriously, all I wanted to do after watching this HBO documentary series was binge-watch all of Brooks’ oeuvre. Also, did you know he was involved in making cinema cult classics like “The Elephant Man” and “The Fly”? We’re honestly not worthy of Mel Brooks.

‘The Pitt’ honors the victims and survivors of the Tree of Life shooting

Perhaps the most genuinely moving moment of Jewish TV this month came from Noah Wyle in the HBO medical drama “The Pitt.” That’s not surprising after my soul barely survived his utterance of the Shema last season.

This season, Wyle’s Dr. Robby bonds with Yana, a Russian Jewish woman who comes into the ER with severe burns after a samovar-related incident. Yana, like any Jewish grandmother, tried to treat her wounds with honey at home, but to no avail. How typical is it for Jewish grandmothers to do anything they can to avoid going to the ER? Pretty typical for mine, anyway.

Yana and Robby bond over being Jewish — she asks him if he’s single, of course — and she chides him for wanting to go on a motorcycle trip. (He’s too old for that!! Also, my heart would not survive Dr. Robby dying in a motorcycle accident.)

But Yana also reveals that she is a member of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, where the deadliest antisemitic attack on U.S. soil took place in 2018.The two bond about trauma and mortality. In one particularly moving scene, Yana tells Perla, a hijab-wearing nurse, about her gratitude for the Muslim community, which raised over $20,000 to help her congregation after the attack.

The episode was written by Wyle, and it’s definitely giving strong mensch energy. I have a feeling this season will shatter me just as the last one did.

What was your favorite Jewish watch of January? Let me know in the comments!