Alongside a bourbon-tasting, Rabbi Drew Kaplan provided insights into the ceremonial ritual drinking practices of Shabbat last month for seniors last month. “Our Seniors Group had a fantastic time sampling bourbons, sipping cocktails, and learning about Jewish involvement in the bourbon world,” exclaimed Rockdale Temple‘s senior rabbi, Rabbi Meredith Kahan.Continue Reading
Having read about the findings from the Cincinnati 2030 forum, I was struck by how relevant my Jewish Drinking initiative is for these findings. For those less familiar with my Jewish Drinking initiative, I began it a couple of years ago with resources on drinking in Jewish history, tradition, andContinue Reading
I am excited to share that I will be leading a tasting-and-teaching event in just three weeks from today. Taking place at the Mayerson JCC on October 28th, “An Introduction to Wine in Jewish Life: A Pairing of Tasting and Tradition” will be exactly that: an introduction to wine-tasting, asContinue Reading
I am excited to share that the 76th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show published today, in which I got to chat with Rabbi Noah Ferro, who is the head rabbi at Northern Hills Synagogue-Congregation B’nai Avraham in Cincinnati. For this episode, we discussed the Talmudic drinking story known asContinue Reading
Leading up to Passover this year, I wanted to publish four episodes of The Jewish Drinking Show, the leading podcast on drinking in Judaism, to cutely correspond to the four cups of wine at the Passover Seder. Adding to the two episodes I published last year (“Whiskey As The CatalystContinue Reading
With Purim taking place this evening and continuing through tomorrow, I am excited to share this year’s trio of episodes of The Jewish Drinking Show on the topic of Purim: A Kabbalistic Approach To Purim-Drinking Drinking Parties In The Book Of Esther Medieval Jewish Legal Authorities (Rishonim) On Purim-Drunkenness HereContinue Reading
I am excited to share my appearance on the 17th episode of the Drinking & Drashing podcast.Ā The episode is available here (as well as many different services): If you’re interested in checking out some clips from the episode, here are several: Briefly Discussing the Origin Story of JewishDrinking.com &Continue Reading
In the newest episode of the JewishDrinking.com Show, Rabbi Andie Cosnowsky, senior rabbi of Congregation Etz Chaim in Lombard, Illinois, joined me to alcoholism and alcohol abuse in the Jewish community.Ā Here is the episode, in both video and podcast versions: Video: Podcast:Continue Reading
One of the lengthier discussions on wine and drinking in rabbinic literature occurs in the Babylonian Talmud on Eruvin 64-65, which happens to also be the pages of the current Daf Yomi cycle for today and tomorrow. So, for my 47th episode of the JewishDrinking.com podcast and video show, IContinue Reading
On the newest release amongst Jewish Drinking.com’s podcast/video episodes, Alieza Salzberg Yizhar joins me on the show to discuss a particular incident in the Talmud where Yalta destroys 400 jugs of wine (see below for text from the Babylonian Talmud on this incident). She teaches Talmud at the Conservative YeshivaContinue Reading