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Fast Forward How Coke’s Passover recipe sparked an antisemitic conspiracy theory
Soda giant uses cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup for Jewish holiday
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Film & TV Billy Wilder’s Cold War satire was ahead of its time. Is that why it got the cold shoulder?
‘One, Two, Three’ is one of the director's fizziest comedies
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Culture Was the Last Supper a ‘Seder?’ And 3 other vital Passover questions, asked and answered.
When we ask at our Seders why this night is different from all other nights, there are the stock responses and the ones we take for granted. We receive explainers on slouching, unleavened bread and why we dip our herbs. We don’t get into what Jesus’ Passover plans were in Jerusalem. In our Haggadot, we…
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Fast Forward Coca Cola Donates to ‘Fascist’ Israeli Group
Coca Cola in Israel donated 50,000 shekels, or about $13,850 to Im Tirtzu, a right wing group that targets leftists and human rights groups in Israel. The donation was first reported by Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. Im Tirtzu had tried to keep the donation secret by requesting the Israel Corporations Authority not to report it….
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders to Coke, Pepsi: I’m No Soda Shill
Coke and Pepsi are feeling the Bern this week, and not in a good way. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders demanded in a cease and desist letter that the behemoth corporations stop using him in their ads against soda taxes in San Francisco and Oakland. “Advertising from the American Beverage Association that implies that I oppose…
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The Schmooze How Coke Made Hitler ‘Happy’
In an acute case of “no good deed goes unpunished,” Coca-Cola’s #MakeItHappy campaign has gone hopelessly awry. The campaign, launched during the Super Bowl, goes as follows: fans of Coke can tweet unpleasant things and the company, who then turns those angry thoughts into a fun image, which is then tweeted back with the slogan…
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Culture 10 Facts About Georgia Jews
1.127,470 Jews live in Georgia. That’s 1.3% of the population. 2.About 92% of Georgia’s Jews live in Atlanta, and the city’s number of congregations in the city has gone from 5 in 1968 to 38 in 2005. 3.Colonel Mordechai Sheftall, from Savannah, was the highest ranking Jewish officer in the Continental Army. 4.Former New York…
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Fast Forward Coca-Cola Takes Aim at SodaStream by Pouring $1.3B Into Competitor
Coca-Cola Co’s $1.3 billion investment in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc puts pressure on at-home soda leader SodaStream International Ltd to bolster its position through a partnership or merger with the likes of a PepsiCo Inc or Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. Coke’s deal to buy 10 percent of the popular Keurig one-cup coffee brewer…
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