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The Jewish Drinking Show — 190 episodes

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1

The Fifth Cup of the Passover Seder in the Talmud, featuring Dr. Leor Jacobi [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #190]

2

Plague-Themed Cocktails, featuring David Kedson [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #189]

3

Weldon Mills Distillery, featuring Bruce Tyler and Ari Cohen [The Jewish Drinking Show, Episode #188]

4

Kosher Vermouths on the Market Going Into 2026, featuring Mendy Mark [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #187]

5

Philo on Drinking & Drunkenness, featuring Rabbi Dovid Campbell [The Jewish Drinking Show, Episode #186]

6

Drinking Imagery as Sexual Metaphor in the Talmud, featuring Rabbi Dr. Gail Labovitz [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #185]

7

Medieval Jewish Legal Authorities (Rishonim) on Kiddusha Rabbah, featuring Rabbi David Fried [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #184]

8

Indigenous Wine Grape Varieties to Israel, featuring Professor Shivi Drori [The Jewish Drinking Show episode #183]

9

Biblical Eschatological Abundance of Wine, featuring Professor John Anthony Dunne [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode 182]

10

Yiddish Drinking Songs, featuring Rokhl Kafrissen [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #181]

11

Medieval Jewish Wine Poetry, featuring Prof. Ronnie Perelis [The Jewish Drinking Show, Episode #180]

12

One Jew's Journey from Alcoholism to Sobriety, featuring Matthew Check [The Jewish Drinking Show episode #179]

13

Rabbi Yair Ḥayim Bacharach on Jews Drinking Gentile Wine, featuring Rabbi Aryeh Klapper [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #178]

14

Rabbi Yeḥezkel Landau's Responsum on Isinglass in Mead, featuring Rabbi Elli Fischer [The Jewish Drinking Show, Episode #177]

15

Shmaltz Brewing Transitions Through Experimentation, featuring Rabbi Jesse Epstein [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #176]

16

A Kosher Wine Concierge Service in Israel, featuring Eli Freedman [The Jewish Drinking Show episode #175]

17

Shul Kiddushes, featuring Prof. Michal Shaul [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #174]

18

Teenagers in Hospitals in Israel on Purim, featuring Dr. Eric Scheier [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #173]

19

Women Drinking on Purim? featuring Rabbanit Debbie Zimmerman [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #172]

20

Wine and Drinking in the Book of Daniel, featuring Prof. Caryn Tamber-Rosenau [The Jewish Drinking Show episode #171]

21

Biblical Beverages, featuring Professor John Anthony Dunne [The Jewish Drinking Show episode #170]

22

The Jew Who Owned George Dickel Whisky, featuring Clay Shwab [The Jewish Drinking Show Episode #169]

23

Drunken Shema [The Jewish Drinking Show episode #168]

24

Drunken Birkat HaMazon [The Jewish Drinking Show episode #167]

25

Drunkenness in the Babylonian Talmud, Part 2 [The Jewish Drinking Show episode 166]

26

Drunkenness in the Babylonian Talmud, Part 1 [The Jewish Drinking Show episode 165]

27

Drunkenness in the Talmud Yerushalmi [The Jewish Drinking Show episode 164]

28

Drunkenness in Early Rabbinic Literature [The Jewish Drinking Show, Episode 163]

29

Drunkenness in the Bible, featuring Dr. Rebekah Welton [The Jewish Drinking Show episode #162]

30

Dukhening Under the Influence [The Jewish Drinking Show episode 161]

31

Drinking in the Guide for the Perplexed, featuring Rabbi Dr. Phillip Lieberman [The Jewish Drinking Show episode 160]

32

Rav Moshe's Teshuvot on Whiskey, featuring Rabbi Dov Linzer [The Jewish Drinking Show Episode 159]

33

The L'ḥayyim Episode, Featuring Rabbi Dr. Zvi Ron [The Jewish Drinking Show Episode 158]

34

Shiloh Winery, featuring Amichai Luria [The Jewish Drinking Show episode 157]

35

Israel's First Vineyard-as-a-Service: Anava Vineyards, featuring Nadav Jesselson [The Jewish Drinking Show Episode #156]

36

Rosh Chodesh Clubs, featuring Yossie Horwitz [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode 155]

37

Drinking Between Glasses of Wine at the Passover Seder [The Jewish Drinking Show episode #154]

38

Considering a Recent Explanation of Dropping Wine at the Passover Seder with Rabbi Dr. Zvi Ron [The Jewish Drinking Show episode 153]

39

Two Twentieth Century Rabbis on Purim-Drinking: Rabbi Kook & Rabbi Hutner, featuring Rabbi David Fried [The Jewish Drinking Show ep. 152]

40

The Purim Katan Episode [The Jewish Drinking Show, ep. 151]

41

Drinking During Mourning [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode 150]

42

The Rebellious Son (Ben Sorer Umoreh), featuring Dr. Rebekah Welton [The Jewish Drinking Show, ep. 149]

43

Boone County Distilling, featuring Josh Quinn [The Jewish Drinking Show, ep. 148]

44

Starting a Kosher Wine-Importing & Distributing Business, featuring Ami & Larissa Nahari [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode 147]

45

Man Seders, featuring Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Sinensky [The Jewish Drinking Show, ep. 146]

46

Jerusalem’s First (& Only) Distillery, featuring Bennett Kaplan [The Jewish Drinking Show ep. 145]

47

Creative Brewing in Israel, featuring Shmuel Naky and Ephraim Greenblatt [The Jewish Drinking Show episode 144]

48

Creating a Brewery in Jerusalem, featuring Ephraim Greenblatt and Shmuel Naky [The Jewish Drinking Show episode 143]

49

Drinking In/Out of Sukkot [The Jewish Drinking Show episode 142]

50

Contemporary Beer Trends in Israel, featuring Doug Greener [The Jewish Drinking Show Episode 141]

51

Contemporary Wine Trends in Israel, featuring Adam Montefiore [The Jewish Drinking Show episode 140]

52

Israel’s First Whiskey Distillery, featuring Gal Kalkshtein & Tal Chotiner [The Jewish Drinking Show episode 139]

53

Producing Kosher Wine in European Wineries, featuring Jay Buchsbaum [The Jewish Drinking Show ep. #138]

54

Drinking in the World to Come in Second Temple Literature? featuring Prof. Claudia Bergmann

55

Terms for Beverages in Geonic Literature, featuring Prof. Phil Lieberman [ep. 136 of The Jewish Drinking Show]

56

Compulsive Libationers of the Talmud?, featuring Prof. Sacha Stern [ep. 135 of The Jewish Drinking Show]

57

Cincinnati Kiddush Club Scotches, featuring Yossi Francus [episode 134 of The Jewish Drinking Show]

58

Yiddish Drinking Terms, featuring Dr. Jordan Finkin [episode 133 of The Jewish Drinking Show]

59

Reform Responses to Prohibition, featuring Rabbi Zachary Goodman [The Jewish Drinking Show episode #132]

60

Four Cups and the Holocaust, featuring Professor Samuel Levine [Episode #131 of The Jewish Drinking Show]

61

The Innovation of Ḥametz-Selling and Its Aftermath, featuring Dan Rabinowitz [The Jewish Drinking Show Episode #130]

62

Four Cups at the Seder and Consciousness, featuring Rabbi Zac Kamenetz [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #129]

63

Thornton Distilling & Dead Drop Spirits, featuring Ari Klafter [The Jewish Drinking Show, Episode #128]

64

18th &19th Century Rabbis on Purim-Drinking (Later Aharonim), featuring Rabbi David Fried [Episode 127 of The Jewish Drinking Show]

65

Massekhet Purim: An 18th Century Talmudic Parody, featuring Professor Richard Sarason [The Jewish Drinking Show, Episode #126]

66

Kiddush Club Experiences, featuring Udi Zinar [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #125]

67

Kiddush Clubs as Mens' Clubs, featuring Dr. Michal Shaul [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #124]

68

Lives of Tavernkeeping Jews in 18th & 19th Century Poland, featuring Prof. Glenn Dynner [The Jewish Drinking Show episode 123]

69

A Jewish Tavern: Lehrhaus, featuring Rabbi Charlie Schwartz [Episode 122 of The Jewish Drinking Show]

70

America's Kosher Brewery & Bakery: Long Beach Beer Lab and Long Beach Bread Lab, featuring Harmony & Dr. Levi Fried [The Jewish Drinking Show episode 121]

71

Shirah Wines, Featuring Shimon and Gabriel Weiss [The Jewish Drinking Show, Episode #120]

72

Tzafona Cellars & Kosher Ice Wines, featuring Rabbi Avraham Gislason [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #119]

73

KOVAL Distillery, featuring Dr. Sonat Birnecker Hart [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode 118]

74

Shmaltz Brewing, Featuring Jeremy Cowan & Jesse Epstein [The Jewish Drinking Show Episode #117]

75

Pharoah's Cupbearer and Baker as Cultural Conflict of Wine vs. Beer, featuring Dr. Jon Greenberg [The Jewish Drinking Show Episode #116]

76

Kosher Wine in Medieval Provence, featuring Dr. Pinchas Roth [The Jewish Drinking Show Episode #115]

77

Making Cocktails on Shabbat, featuring Dan Rabinowitz

78

Talmudic Parables of Wine with Looks, featuring Dr. Elana Stein Hain [The Jewish Drinking Show episode 113]

79

The Term חבורה (havurah) in Tannaitic Literature, featuring Dr. Orit Malka [Episode 112 Of The Jewish Drinking Show]

80

Wine and Shemittah, featuring Rabbi Ezra Friedman [Episode 111 of The Jewish Drinking Show]

81

Byzantine-Era Winery in Yavneh

82

Jacob Ner-David of Jezreel Valley Wines and VinSent

83

Wine in Israel

84

Covenant Wines featuring Jeff Morgan

85

Golden Moon Distillery

86

DEKō Cocktails, featuring Dan Rabinowitz

87

The Niddah Harchakot Episode

88

Jewish Addiction Awareness, featuring Marla Kaufman

89

Jewish Recovery, featuring Rabbi Ilan Glazer

90

American Orthodox Attitudes to Grape Juice During Prohibition and Beyond, featuring Dr. Yaakov Weinstein

91

19th Century Raisin Wine in America - featuring Professor Jonathan Sarna

92

Demons And The Four Cups Of Wine At The Passover Seder [Redux] Featuring Professor Sara Ronis

93

Wine in Medieval Haggadah Art

94

Suggestions for Four Cups of Wine at the Passover Seder, featuring Brad du Plessis

95

Promised Land Beverage Co.: KFP Cider, Kosher Vermouths, & More, featuring Yoni Schwartz

96

14th Century Purim Parodies

97

Early Aharonim (16th-17th Century Rabbis) on Purim Drinking

98

Modern Israeli Wine History, Part 2: 1970s-Present featuring Adam Montefiore - episode #93

99

Modern Israeli Wine History, Part 1: Early History featuring Adam Montefiore - episode #92

100

"Beer is Man's Life": TaZ on Hadash

101

Rav Hai Gaon on Music in the Drinking House, featuring Rabbi Daniel Isaac

102

Wine for 12th Century Jewish Traders in the Indian Ocean, featuring Professor Elizabeth Lambourn

103

Jews in American Distilling History, featuring Maggie Kimberl - The Jewish Drinking Show episode #88

104

Drinking in the Hayyei Adam, featuring Dashiell Ferguson - The Jewish Drinking Show episode #87

105

Homa's Day in Court, featuring Noam Sachs Zion

106

Taverns in the Talmud?

107

Rabbi Moshe Isserles' Responsum on Gentile Wine, featuring Professor Marc Shapiro

108

Medieval Rabbis on Gentile Wine, featuring Prof. David Freidenreich

109

Kiddush in Kabbalah, featuring Professor Rabbi Joel Hecker

110

Kosher Cocktail Enthusiasts, with Dovid Statman

111

Cocktails in Mochers Magazine with Yissie Steinhart

112

Pandemic Pivoting in Israel - with Joel Haber

113

Pandemic Liquor Sales, featuring Mendy Mark

114

The Jews and Booze Facebook Group

115

The Kamtza and Bar Kamtza Episode

116

The Ammonite Wine Midrash, featuring Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein

117

Pre-Pandemic Liquor Sales, featuring Mendy Mark

118

Psalms 104:15 in the Babylonian Talmud featuring Professor AJ Berkovitz

119

Episode 72: The Wine Festival in the Dead Sea Scrolls

120

Episode 71: Libation Wine in the Mishnah and Tosefta

121

Episode 70: Maharal of Prague on Jewish & Gentile Wine

122

Episode 69: Drinking and Drashing: Another Jewish Drinking Podcast

123

Episode 68: Wine at Bris Milah

124

Episode 67: Yeshiva High School Students Binge-Drinking

125

Episode 66: Maimonides on Kiddush and Havdallah

126

Episode 65: Distilleries Selling Their Hametz

127

Episode 64: The Origin of Drops of Wine at the Passover Seder

128

Episode 63: Women's Inclusion with the 4 Cups of Wine at the Seder in the Talmud

129

Episode 62: The Passover Seder's 4 Cups of Wine in the Mishnah and Talmud

130

Episode 61: Medieval Jewish Legal Authorities (Rishonim) on Purim-Drunkenness

131

Episode 60: Drinking Parties in the Book of Esther

132

Episode 59: An Early Kabbalistic Approach to Purim-Drinking

133

Episode 58: Wine in Ben Sira

134

Episode 57: Angels and Asparagus: Discussing a Curious Talmudic Beverage

135

Episode 56: Praying (& Providing Guidance) Under the Influence

136

Episode 55: The Rabbinic Drinking House (בית משתה) in the Mishnah and Tosefta

137

Episode 54: New Riff Distilling

138

Episode 53: Beer and Whiskey in Wine Containers That Previously Contained Gentile Wine

139

The Bourbon Rabbi

140

Non-Wine Beverages for Kiddush & Havdallah

141

Lot, Lot's Daughters, and Wine

142

Lot and His Daughters' Drinking Episode in the Midrash (Bereshit Rabbah)

143

Alcoholism in the Jewish Community

144

A Significant Rabbinic Discussion on Wine & Drinking: Eruvin 64-65

145

The Farbrengen Episode

146

The Kiddush Club Episode

147

Drinking During the Ten Days of Repentance: An Introduction

148

Honey and Mead

149

Kedem Wines

150

Yalta's Wine-Destroying

151

Drinking During The Nine Days

152

Haykin Family Cider

153

Tip Top Proper Cocktails

154

The Libation Episode

155

Miriam's Well

156

Wine at Jewish Lifecycle Events

157

What Do a Good Guest & Bad Guest Say

158

Introduction to Wine in Kabbalah

159

The Mahia Episode

160

An Introductory Overview to Jewish Drinking Through The Ages

161

Jews' Involvement in the 18th Century Caribbean Rum Trade

162

What a Third Century Mosaic in Sepphoris Can Tell Us About Jewish Drinking Attitudes in the Third Century

163

Women and Biblical Beer-Brewing

164

Beer in the Bible

165

How Beer Became Acceptable for Havdallah in the Babylonian Talmud

166

Demons and the Four Cups of Wine at the Passover Seder

167

Whiskey As the Catalyst for Selling of Chametz

168

How Many Cups of Wine to Drink in a Mourner's House - 10 or 14?

169

Jews in the 17th and 18th Century Liquor Trade in Poland

170

Jews and Prohibition

171

Purim-Drinking in Hasidic Thought

172

Drinking on Purim in The Talmud

173

Rava, Mordechai, and Purim

174

Drinking in Hasidic Thought

175

Tu b'Shevat Cocktails and the Contemporary Cocktail Scene in Israel

176

Manischewitz Wine, Kedem Wine, and More

177

Rav Papa - The Talmud Bavli's Beer Baron

178

Kosher Craft Beer in the late 2010s

179

Jewish Tavernkeepers in 18th & 19th Century Poland

180

Wine in the Book of Judith

181

Drinking on Hanukah

182

Wine in the Mishnah

183

Discussing Lot's Drinking with His Daughters

184

Discussing Lot and His Daughters' Drunkenness

185

Beer, Wine, and Bal Taschit in the Talmud

186

What Happened to Noah When He Got Drunk?

187

A Jewish Bible Drinking Game?

188

Drinking in the Book of Ecclesiastes

189

Drinking on Sukkot

190

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