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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

How about a Tuesday at 1:15 p.m.?

A Kosher wine can be not Kosher? Is that correct?

Asks the ignorant gentile.

Kosher vs. Kosher for Passover. Passover carries stricter rules stemming from not being able to eat leavened bread (bread that's risen due to yeast). Just because something is kosher for the rest of the year doesn't mean it's kosher for passover (e.g., bread is obviously a perfectly kosher food...but not for Passover). Yeast is, of course, an important ingredient in the wine making process, so it becomes tricky. Long ago, rabbis put their heads together and decided that for a wine to be considered kosher for Passover, the yeast in it cannot be yeast that's grown on bread (it usually comes from sugar instead).

Now, it happens that most kosher wines do this anyway (thus, the super-sweet varieties like Manischewitz or Kadeem). But then there is the large contingency of Jews, especially in America, that do not strictly keep Kosher for most of the year, but do observer most of the Passover rules, which means that they'll want to avoid "normal" (i.e., non-kosher) wines, because you have no way of knowing whether they use kosher for Passover yeasts.




Hmmm, I think that, just to make this thread retroactively on-topic, there should be a screening of the 10 Commandments at la casa. Or at least Prince of Egypt. Or maybe Ben-Hur.