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Food Are You Ready for the Kosher Grape Juice War?
(JTA) – is coming to seder this year. For decades, America’s kosher grape juice market has been dominated by Kedem, whose sweet libations come in concord, blush, white, peach, diet and a variety of sparkling flavors. But with U.S. sales flat when it comes to non-kosher grape juice, Welch’s, America’s largest grape juice company, is…
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Food At Tuscany’s Only Kosher Winery, Owners Can’t Touch the Chianti
Terra di Seta is the only fully kosher winery in the Tuscan wine-making region of Chianti. Its goal is to produce kosher wines that match the quality of local wines produced there for centuries. JTA – Up a windy road in the tranquil Tuscan hills, down a gravel path and past acres of grapevines, a…
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Life Gabrielle Birkner Named to Top JTA Post
Former Sisterhood editor Gabrielle Birkner has been named the new managing editor of JTA. Birkner is heading JTA’s editorial team and leading efforts to expand and improve the 97-year-old Jewish news agency’s digital offerings. “We are so proud and excited to have Gabi assuming this role,” said Ami Eden, JTA’s CEO and editor in chief….
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Fast Forward JTA To Merge With My Jewish Learning To Create New Jewish Platform
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, world Jewry’s oldest and most widely read wire service, has announced it plans to merge with My Jewish Learning, another informational website, to form a new Jewish content platform. “The combination will bring together two strong, growing and respected nonprofit media organizations dedicated to providing readers with news, information, content and…
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The Schmooze JTA’s Response to Marina Shifrin’s Viral Video
Last week, Marina Shifrin won the Internet’s love by quitting her job via Youtube video. The 25-year-old previously worked at Next Media Animation, a Taiwanese animation company. The video shows her dancing to Kanye West’s “Gone,” describing why she has decided to wave goodbye to her job. Shifrin announced that she was returning to the…
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Opinion Weiner-Spitzer Waltz: Covering Jewish Scandals
America loves a juicy sex scandal, heaven knows, so it’s natural for the sudden explosion of three at once, all involving prominent politicians, to attract an avalanche of national attention in all the major media—print, broadcast, Internet and late-night comedy. But the fact that all three of the principals are Jewish creates a ticklish situation…
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Israel News Fledgling Jewish News Service Rocks Boat With Strident Pro-Israel Message
A new, right-leaning Jewish newswire is seeking to displace the Jewish Telegraphic Agency as the Associated Press of the Jewish media. Nearly two years after its launch, Jewish News Service is growing fast by promoting its pro-Israel perspective, offering ad-friendly special sections — and by giving it all away cheap. “Some papers choose to use…
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Opinion ‘Why Isn’t Mommy Jewish?’: When Christian Moms Raise Jewish Kids
JTA has a fascinating story by their intrepid Sue Fishkoff about non-Jewish spouses (read wives) in interfaith marriages who are raising their kids as Jewish The story doesn’t get into the interdenominational and Israel-Diaspora politics of the issue, for a change. It’s about the part that the politicians and scholars too often overlook: real, live…
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