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wine but where to make wine. They
began planting fewer vineyards in
Israel's low-lying coastal areas and
more in higher-altitude regions like
the Golan Heights, the Upper Galilee
and the Judean Hills, where the cli-
mate has proved better for growing
quality grapes.
The Golan Heights Winery, estab-
lished in 1984, played an important
role in the quality revolution of Israeli
wines, bringing in expertise from
California and raising the bar for
other winemakers, said the director
of wine development at the Carmel
Winery, Adam Montefiore, who also
has worked at the Golan Heights
Winery
"The planting had been going on in
the wrong places of the coastal plane,
where the soil was not right and with
grapes that were not the right variet-
ies," Rogov said. "In the Golan Heights,
the primarily volcanic soil is excellent
for grapes and the chalky, volcanic red
clay of the Upper Galilee is also very
good."
The return of modern winemak-
ing to the region began in 1882 with
the investment in wineries in Zichron
Yaakov and Rishon Le-Zion by philan-
thropist Baron Edmond de Rothschild.
The baron, who in France owned
Chateaux Lafite, arguably the world's
most famous winery, hoped a wine
industry would help support Jewish
settlement in what was then Ottoman-
ruled Palestine.
Rothschild's wineries eventually
morphed into the Carmel Winery, still
Israel's largest. But for decades it was
Carmel that was synonymous with
the thick, sweet kosher wine that Jews
around the world used for kiddush on
Shabbat and holidays.
Israel today has about eight major
wineries, 10 medium-sized ones and
nearly 180 boutique wineries. They
range from the high-end Margalit
and Yatir wineries to the innovative
and organic Neot Semadar Winery,
the southernmost winery in the
country, located deep in the Negev
Desert.
At Ramat Raziel, a moshav in the
forested hills outside Jerusalem, Ben-
Zaken has spent the last few weeks
walking through his vineyards testing
the grapes until they were ripe for
harvest. An Egyptian-born immigrant
from Italy, Ben-Zaken says the process
of working the land makes him feel
especially rooted.
He says he also sees a role for Israeli
wine beyond the pleasure of its taste.
"Here you can show the world that
Was to
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Israel is not only about wars and
violence;' he said. "And their image of
Israel changes."
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Award Winners Named
The Michigan Institute for Jewish
Christian Relations will honor Rev.
Kenneth Flowers of Detroit and Wendy
Wagenheim of Birmingham with its
2008 James Lyons Award 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday Sept. 23, at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek Southfield.
The Southfield-based MIJCR, former-
ly the Dove Institute,
is Michigan's leading
organization devoted
to fostering respect,
understanding
and collaboration
between Jews and
Christians. The James
Rev. Flowers
Lyons Award goes to
leading national and
local figures whose
work advances the
goals of the Institute.
Rabbi Joseph Krakoff
of Congregation
Shaarey Zedek in
Oakland County
Wendy
serves as president of
Waggenheim
the institute.
Rev. Flowers is
pastor of the Greater New Mt. Moriah
Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit.
He is the founder of the Mt. Moriah
Community Development Corporation
to empower and renovate the commu-
nity, and has chaired the Ecumenical
Committee of the Council of Baptist
Pastors of Detroit and Vicinity.
He has been to Israel four times,
including last January when he received
the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Israel
Award from the Fellowship of Israel and
Black America.
Wendy Wagenheim is an outspoken
advocate on public education, affirma-
tive action, reproductive choice, human
rights and separation of church and
state. After serving as the state public
affairs chair for the National Council
of Jewish Women she spent 10 years
working for the American Civil liberties
Union of Michigan as both legislative
director and, subsequently, as the com-
munications director.
Since serving as president of the
Jewish Community Relations Council of
Metropolitan Detroit from 2005-2007
she has devoted much of her time to the
Michigan Darfur Coalition.
For ticket information, contact the
MIJCR, (248) 557-4522.
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