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No More Sour Grapes: Israeli Wine Comes of Age
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- During the traditional Seder meal, which marks the Passover holiday, Jews all over the world drink four cups of wine as they retell the story of the exodus from Egypt. In the U.S. -- and, of course, Jerusalem -- much of this wine will be kosher and from Israel. For many years, kosher wine from Israel was more similar to cough syrup than to anything you might actually want to drink. Most Israeli wineries produced sweet, sacramental wine for Seder, or the traditional Sabbath meal, which includes a blessing over wine. That kind of wine is still produced and sold in Israel today. ...
Why Are These Nicknames Different From All Other Nicknames?
By Bethlehem Shoals - AOL NewsAs I've discussed elsewhere, the Bible is a great place to grab nicknames from. It's also the source of possibly the most durable of sports writing cliches -- "the Promised Land" -- but that's a story for another day. Today, Omri Caspi and several million other Jews are on their third day of Passover, an eight-day holiday celebrating when the Lord took their ancestors out of the land of Egypt, where they were slaves. It's the inspiration for the song "Let My People Go," the movie Exodus, and the Bob Marley song "Exodus." Actually, if you like reggae, you will like Passover. But by far the ...
Easter vs. Passover: What's a Catholic Jewish-Wannabe to Do?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyPassover begins this week, followed quickly by Easter. As a former Catholic married to a Jew, I hate this time of year. It reminds me -- once again -- of just how unresolved my husband and I are about the status of religion within our family. This is not a new issue for us. My husband and I have periodically mulled it over ever since we took an interfaith workshop titled "I'm Jewish; You're Not" at a University Hillel 12 years ago. By mutual agreement, we ruled out Christianity early on. But we've still never managed to come to any closure on the Judaism part of the equation. Sure, we've had ...
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