How Coca Cola Became Kosher

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Rabbi Tobias Geffen

How Coca Cola Became Kosher

From: Philip Graitcer
Length: 00:04:30

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Piece Description

Tonight is the first night of Passover. And as Jews gather to tell the story of the their escape from slavery, there's another story that they could tell too - the story of one man, Rabbi Tobias Geffen, who in the 1935, infiltrated the inner sanctum of Coca Cola, and got the Coke executives to change the secret formula to make Coke kosher.

Rabbi Adam Mintz, a professor of Jewish history, at Queens College in New York tells the story.

Broadcast History

Nextbook, April 6, 2009
WLRN, Miami, April 9, 2009

Timing and Cues

There is :45 of music, out

Intro and Outro

INTRO:

Tonight is the first night of Passover. And as Jews gather to tell the story of the their escape from slavery, there's another story that they could tell too - the story of one man, Rabbi Tobias Geffen, who in the 1935, infiltrated the inner sanctum of Coca Cola, and got the Coke executives to change the secret formula to make Coke kosher.

Rabbi Adam Mintz, a professor of Jewish history, at Queens College in New York tells the story

OUTRO:

:45 of klezmer music for your own OUTRO