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Wine

Sagie Kleinlerer, general manager of Covenant Wines, has his own label now and two varietals.
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Covenant manager branches out and grows his own (non-kosher) wine label

Alix Wall by Alix Wall October 27, 2021March 15, 2022
Carmel Greenberg is the head winemaker at Clos Du Val in Napa Valley. 
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Meet Carmel Greenberg, the first Israeli woman to be a head winemaker in Napa

Alix Wall by Alix Wall October 25, 2021March 15, 2022
a younger white woman works in a commercial kitchen
Posted inSmall Bites

New ‘Jew-ish’ deli coming to Napa; Jewish Argentine chef coming for stint at Lord Stanley

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 27, 2021March 15, 2022
A vineyard in Israel. (Photo/Courtesy Jeff Morgan)
Posted inCulture

Documentary on Israeli wine turns sour on kosher issue

Jeff Morgan by Jeff Morgan March 10, 2021March 15, 2021
Jordan Rosenblum is a professor of Jewish studies and art history at the University of Wisconsin. (Photo/Courtesy Rosenblum)
Posted inReligion

Lecture on booze as a gateway chug into rabbinic thinking

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky September 9, 2020September 9, 2020
Covenant Winery co-owner Jeff Morgan (right) with his Israel-based winemaker Ari Erle in Covenant's syrah vineyard in the northern Galilee. (Photo/Courtesy Covenant Winery)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Que syrah, syrah? Local kosher wineries struggle through shutdown

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 15, 2020May 26, 2020
Daniel Azarkman drinking rose at his wine bar, El Lopo. (Andrew Curry)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Spain and California find common ground at El Lopo wine bar

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 27, 2019
Rabbi Mayer Hirsch with barrels of sacramental kosher wine during Prohibition in San Francisco, ca. 1930. (The Magnes Collection)
Posted inHistory

100 years ago, Prohibition put booze and Jews in the news

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 24, 2019
Oded Shakked at his Sonoma winery, Longboard Vineyards. (Courtesy Oded Shakked)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Surfin’ Israeli is totally stoked about his Healdsburg winery

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 2, 2019December 6, 2019
Dr. John Bry, bringing in the harvest
Posted inFood

Q&A: This vintner grows his grapes with surgical precision

Alix Wall by Alix Wall October 24, 2019November 5, 2019

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