A hands-on lesson … with their feet

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OHDS fourth-graders (from left) Max Bamberger, Paul Leibovitch and Jacob Leider

When Oakland Hebrew Day School invited Jonathan Hajdu to teach students about kosher wine last week, the 33-year-old kosher winemaker decided to take his lesson to the next level — and out of the classroom.

So on the morning of Oct. 25, a dozen OHDS fourth-graders got to go outside, take off their shoes and stomp on about 1,000 pounds of grapes that Hajdu had hauled up the hill in a plastic container in the back of a pickup truck.

Hajdu, an Oakland resident and associate winemaker for Covenant Wines in Napa Valley, taught the kids about what makes a wine kosher, and why it needs to be kosher. Learning about kashrut is part of the fourth-grade curriculum, said Dan Cohen, OHDS board chairman.

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Hajdu also makes his own kosher wines under the Brobdingnagian label. “Kosher wine dates back to Temple days,” Cohen noted. “People like Jon are just making sure it tastes awesome.”

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A hands-on lesson … with their feet

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