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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

kosher wine

Composite image showing Segev Schwartz, left, and Eitan Neeman, right, both soldiers who were killed on or around October 7, next to their respective memorial wines. (courtesy)
May 13, 2024, 8:00 am
Local wine firms market libations honoring Israel’s fallen, but some hit sour notes
Projects that allow bereaved families to craft a drinkable memorial are proliferating in the wake of October 7, as some accuse them of profiteering from national pain
By Gavriel Fiske
Illustrative photo of grapes ready for harvest in the Golan. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
April 22, 2024, 10:11 am
Two thousand years ago, wine was likely as complex and flavorful as today
Roman wines ‘may even have rivaled the fine wines of today,’ archaeologist says; Israeli wine expert opines that Jewish wine during the Roman period was likely ‘very great’
By Gavriel Fiske
It feels like Napa, or Bordeaux, at Domaine du Castel, one of Israel's first boutique wineries, in the Judean Hills, the country's first official wine appellation. (Courtesy: Elad Barmi)
July 18, 2022, 4:44 am
It’s a quick ride from Bordeaux red to sparkling Champagne in the Judean Hills
Israel’s Judean Hills and Foothills becomes first appellation of origin for the region, a boon for local wineries and tourism
By Jessica Steinberg
Pouring a Nana Estate Winery rose while looking out toward the unlikely desert terroir of this Negev vineyard. (Courtesy: Nana Winery)
May 21, 2022, 10:29 am
In the Negev, a new breed of vintners are making the desert bloom
With the arid terroir producing a wine that’s ‘fruity but not jammy,’ the vineyards of the Negev are banding together in hopes of being recognized as a formal appellation
By Jessica Steinberg
A Chabad emissary distributes matzah in a remote Jewish community ahead of Passover. (Courtesy of Chabad House Spokesman)
April 6, 2022, 8:56 pm
Isolated Jewish communities from Namibia to Japan to receive Passover boon
Melbourne-based Werdiger family donates 50,000 packages of matzah and wine that will fill the seder tables of Jews in 110 far-flung locations
By Michael Horovitz
Anne Aletá, left, and Moisés Cohen on their Clos Mesorah Estate Winery in 2018. (David Silverman/Getty Images/ via JTA)
November 19, 2021, 7:15 am
500 years after the Inquisition, Spain’s kosher wine industry is taking off
Before their expulsion, Jews played a major role in wine production in Spanish-speaking lands for centuries; now a resurgence sees bottles flying off the shelves at home and abroad
By Orge Castellano
Bartenura Moscato wine in a can (Courtesy from JTA)
May 16, 2020, 12:26 am
Kosher wine sold in a can, bubbles and all
Royal Wine, which produces Bartenura Moscato, says new four-packs of the canned drink are already available in some stores, will be sold everywhere by June
By Shannon Sarna
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
June 28, 2018, 12:10 pm
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
The scandal of the Ethiopians and the wine
The Orthodox Judaism I fell in love with at the age of 16 has become distorted beyond recognition
Leslie Rudd (Screen capture: Vimeo/Edge Hill)
May 9, 2018, 11:45 pm
Leslie Rudd, maker of fine kosher wines, is dead at 76
Co-founder of Covenant Winery in California’s Napa Valley grew up in Kansas drinking Manischewitz and sought to make top end beverage
By JTA
Amar’e Stoudemire showing one of the wines in his collection of Israeli kosher wines, in New York, February 20, 2018. (Courtesy of Jewish National Fund-USA via JTA)
February 21, 2018, 11:58 pm
Former NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire launches line of kosher wines
Basketballer selling two red blends and a Cabernet Sauvignon produced in Israel, says ’It’s my way of giving back to the land’
By Josefin Dolsten
Ian McGonigle
July 9, 2017, 2:27 pm
Ian McGonigle
Grapes from Zion
The West Bank makes world-class wine, no matter what you think of the wineries’ religious or political convictions
Jeremy Rosen
November 4, 2016, 1:41 pm
Jeremy Rosen
Getting drunk
On wine’s importance in Judaism — and how the sages protect nice Jewish boys from fraternizing with sexy shiksa models
White Peach Sangria with Orange Blossom Water and Strawberry Rosé Sangria (Samantha Ferraro/ via JTA)
August 24, 2016, 2:25 am
What’s better than Sephardic Sangria one way? Sephardic Sangria two ways
Orange blossom and rose water lend aromatic and floral tones, making this refreshing Mediterranean-influenced cocktail go down smooth
By Samantha Ferraro
Illustrative photo of kosher wine production in Israel. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 1, 2016, 10:49 pm
Montreal cops seize 8,000 bottles of illegal kosher wine
Two arrested after authorities find 650 cases in synagogue basement in apparent Passover-related bootlegging bust
By JTA
Tasting and spitting at Wine Jerusalem 2015; this year's expo opens Wednesday night at Binyanei Hauma, the International Convention Center (Courtesy Wine Jerusalem)
March 9, 2016, 11:12 am
It’s all kosher at Jerusalem’s annual wine fest
Two nights to taste varietals from 40 wineries across the land
By Jessica Steinberg
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