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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 8 – Stop!  T’shuvah Time.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:28 — 43.5MB)Who has more exciting conferences, rabbis or banking lawyers?  We explore the positive role of the Treasury Department, and the not-so-positive role of the State Department, while discussing...

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...

Ep 6 – Shehecheyanu

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:49 — 42.9MB)Our co-hosts discuss cultivating an attitude of gratitude, even for comfort-fit pants.  Asher then explains life lessons we can learn from golf.  They then discuss space, the final frontier, and...

Ep 5 – Back to School and Elul

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:45 — 38.2MB)Sending our kids off to school makes us reminisce about our college experiences, which seem like yesterday.  Somehow we also find a way to tie the Ben & Jerry’s divestiture...

Ep 4 – Hu-bris

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:03 — 38.5MB)Bris or Brit?  However you pronounce it, we “cut” through issues surrounding the circumcision ritual.  We also discuss the rise of “hu-bris” in our modern political discourse and the...

Ep 3 – Wars and Wine

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 36:44 — 33.6MB)We start by discussing Israel’s conflicts with Gaza over the last two years, and how John’s kids visited Israel when they occurred.  Reflecting on those incidents, John discussed the...