Come on in, grab a seat at our “digital bar” and join two old friends for relatively well-informed and irreverent musings on religion, news, and society. In each episode, Rabbi Asher Lopatin and John Geiringer, an attorney, will ask provocative questions that congregants maybe only wish they could ask their Rabbi. This is not your typical religion podcast… Imagine sharing a drink with your Rabbi. What would you ask? I bet you too have a few questions you wish you could ask. That’s exactly what A Rabbi and a Lawyer Walk Into a Bar Podcast is about. An honest conversation by two news...
John wonders whether the recent eclipse and earthquake should have us concerned, and Asher assures us that gam zu l’tovah - everything is for the good. He also convinces us to say shehechiyanu more often. We begin the countdown to Passover by stopping tachanun, spring cleaning our chometz, and...
Published 04/19/24
Asher describes his new Ann Arbor gig, as all eyes remain on Michigan this election year. Speaking of politicians, we discuss whether Schumer is such a shomer and why Proxmire should be better known. John questions whether those red pins at the Oscars were about our shared humanity, or...
Published 03/21/24