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A Rabbi and a Lawyer

Walk into a bar Podcast

Relatively well informed and irreverent musings on religion, news, and society. Grab a seat and join old friends, Rabbi Asher Lopatin and his former synagogue president, John Geiringer. Imagine sharing a drink with two news junkies who keep an open mind, challenge the status quo, and love discussing the comedy, tragedy, absurdity, and reality of the Jewish experience. Throughout their discussions, John will ask Asher provocative questions that congregants wish they could ask their rabbis.

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Ep 23 – We’re Number 194!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:10 — 34.1MB)We give thanks to our listeners, who lifted us up to #194…among Jewish podcasts, and we ask them to help us beat the Chofetz Chaim at his own game.  Speaking of numbers, we unpack the 10 Utterances...

Ep 18 – Back in the Chai Life Again

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:21 — 37.4MB)Wish us mazel tov in reaching our 18th episode without being cancelled, literally or figuratively!  Speaking of getting “chai,” we get into the weeds about marijuana under both secular...

Ep 14 – Jews and Booze

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 45:36 — 42.0MB)(Rabbi) Asher (Lopatin) describes his adventures at the other General Assembly.  We then unpack the latest Israeli election, and how American Jews should respond to the results.  Asher explains...

Ep 12 – Turn It On Again

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:27 — 36.1MB)Because this is the “Genesis” episode of the year….Now that COVID hits our podcast, we ask why there is a “Land of Confusion” among some Jews regarding modern medicine.  Asher tells us that if we...

Ep 7 – It’s Good to Be the King

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:27 — 37.9MB)Should Jews really be driving forklifts, and is asking that question antisemitic?  Asher and John then discuss superheroes, both real (9/11) and imagined (Sabra).  After unpacking the...