The Jewish Drinking Show Wraps Up Its 2025 Slate of Episodes

As 2025 is wrapping-up, it gives us the opportunity to look back at the episodes of The Jewish Drinking Show published in 2025.

After kicking-off with a couple of “Drinks and Discussion” episodes, the remaining 19 episodes featured primarily rabbis and academics, along with others sprinkled in.

In these episodes, renowned scholars illuminate how beverages function in Tanakh, medieval poetry, rabbinic literature, and philosophy, while conversations on Kiddush, shul kiddush culture, isinglass in mead, and vermouths on today’s kosher market ground these texts in practical and contemporary questions. Together, these episodes create a rich mosaic: scholarly yet accessible, joyful yet reflective, and ancient, yet urgently contemporary, demonstrating just how expansive, nuanced, and meaningful Jewish conversations about drinking can be.

Here is the list of all 2025 episodes of The Jewish Drinking Show:

Ep. 167 – Drunken Birkat HaMazon
Ep. 168 – Drunken Shema
Ep. 169 – The Jew Who Owned George Dickel Whisky with Clay Shwab
Ep. 170 – Biblical Beverages with Professor John Anthony Dunne
Ep. 171 – Wine and Drinking in the Book of Daniel with Professor Caryn Tamber-Rosenau
Ep. 172 – Women Drinking on Purim? with Rabbanit Debbie Zimmerman
Ep. 173 – Teenagers in Hospitals in Israel on Purim with Dr. Eric Scheier
Ep. 174 – Shul Kiddushes with Prof. Michal Shaul
Ep. 175 – A Kosher Wine Concierge Service in Israel with Eli Freedman
Ep. 176 – Shmaltz Brewing Transitions Through Experimentation with Rabbi Jesse Epstein
Ep. 177 – Rabbi Yeḥezkel Landau’s Responsum on Isinglass in Mead with Rabbi Elli Fischer
Ep. 178 – Rabbi Yair Ḥayim Bacharach on Jews Drinking Gentile Wine with Rabbi Aryeh Klapper
Ep. 179 – One Jew’s Journey from Alcoholism to Sobriety with Matthew Check
Ep. 180 – Medieval Jewish Wine Poetry with Professor Ronnie Perelis
Ep. 181 – Yiddish Drinking Songs with Rokhl Kafrissen
Ep. 182 – Biblical Eschatological Abundance of Wine with Professor John Anthony Dunne
Ep. 183 – Indigenous Wine Grape Varieties to Israel with Professor Shivi Drori
Ep. 184 – Medieval Jewish Legal Authorities (Rishonim) on Kiddusha Rabbah with Rabbi David Fried
Ep. 185 – Drinking Imagery as Sexual Metaphor in the Talmud with Rabbi Dr. Gail Labovitz
Ep. 186 – Philo on Drinking & Drunkenness with Rabbi Dovid Campbell
Ep. 187 – Kosher Vermouths Currently in the Market Going Into 2026 with Mendy Mark