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Howard Paul and his wife, Skippy, who have been making and enjoying wine together for decades.
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Yiddish it’s not, but Machaia wine is still a joy

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 15, 2022March 15, 2022
Smoke from the Walbridge Fire near Santa Rosa looms over a vineyard in August 2020. (Photo/GibsonOutdoorPhoto)
Posted inNorthern California

Jewish winemakers press forward on a warming planet

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 29, 2021March 15, 2022
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
State Sen. Scott Wiener. (Photo/JTA-Randy Shropshire-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Orthodoxy and medicine; Antisemitism is racism; Ethnic studies opinions; etc.

by J. Readers March 31, 2021April 2, 2021
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
Len Lehmann, Portola Vineyards owner and winemaker, in the field in September 2020.
Posted inOrganic Epicure

South Bay investor puts his stock in making organic kosher wine

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 22, 2021
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
“L’Chaim Napa Valley” at Congregation Beth Shalom in Napa in 2018 (Photo/Janna Waldinger, Art & Clarity Photography)
Posted inUncategorized

Let the wine flow at Napa’s ‘Synagogue of the Vintners’

Alix Wall by Alix Wall October 10, 2019October 15, 2019

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