Exploring Jewish drinking wisdom
Before starting this JewishDrinking.com endeavor, I had never heard of mahia before, so it was very fascinating to hear about this Moroccan Jewish beverage, as well as its place within Moroccan Jewish culture, as well as some issues that pop up with it, in the newest episode of the podcast. Guest To discuss mahia as […]
Beginning this upcoming Monday and continuing for the following four weeks, Rabbi Dovid Fink will be teaching an online course drunkenness in halakhah. The course is scheduled to take place June 1, 8, 15, 22, & 29 at 1pm EDT (10am PDT & 8pm IDT). Focussing on drunkenness, Rabbi Fink will be considering “certain halachic […]
The newest podcast episode is now up, featuring Joel Haber in our discussion on “An Introductory Overview to Jewish Drinking Through The Ages”. Mr. Haber has been working on “The Taste of Jewish Culture”, a project on Jewish food through the ages (you can also check out the project’s Facebook page). Through this project, Mr. […]
The 30th episode of the JewishDrinking.com podcast and video show is now out! Featuring Professor Stanley Mirvis, whose book The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition hits bookshelves today, this episode is on the involvement of Jews in the 18th century rum trade in the Caribbean. The audio and […]
The newest podcast and video episode for JewishDrinking.com features Professor Loren Spielman, an associate professor at Portland State University. In this episode, Professor Spielman discusses a third century mosaic in Sepphoris (ציפורי), a town in the Galilee, where rabbis involved with Rabbinic Literature lived and traveled. The episode is available in both podcast and video […]
Professor Jennie Ebeling, professor of archaeology at the University of Evansville has not only written Women’s Lives in Biblical Times, published by T&T Clark in 2010, but also co-authored, along with Professor Michael Homan, “Baking and Brewing Beer in the Israelite Household: A Study of Women’s Cooking Technology” in The World of Women in the […]
A First For Buffalo Trace Buffalo Trace Distillery has released a trio of certified kosher whiskies for the company’s first time, utilizing the kosher supervision of the Chicago Rabbinical Council (cRc-Kosher). This may also be the first time a Bourbon has advertised its kosher status on its label. Buffalo Trace began working with cRc in […]
Beer in the Bible? Yup – that’s the topic for the newest episode in the podcast/video series! Featuring Professor Michael Homan, Professor of Theology and Department Head at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans, this episode includes a discussion on what led him to his research and publications on beer in the Bible, a […]
You can only use wine for Havdallah, right? That’s what the Talmudic rabbis thought…until a certain story happened. And then beer became legitimate to use for this ritual. Featuring Professor Jordan Rosenblum, the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism, the Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Chair of […]
The 25th episode of the podcast/video series is now out! Featuring Rabbi Alana Suskin, the co-founder and co-director of the Pomegranate Initiative, as well as a senior editor at JewSchool.com, we discuss the susceptibility to demons of the four cups of wine at the Passover Seder, according to the discussion of the rabbis in the […]
