"A luxury kosher gin project turns collectible spirits into a funding source for Jewish life and legal support amid rising antisemitism in Spain." — The Jerusalem Post, Diaspora — Antisemitism (13 June 2026).
In "Fighting antisemitism with gin: Kosher spirits project backs Jewish life in Spain" (13 June 2026), The Jerusalem Post features Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) and the Tannenblut Bereshit Series in its Diaspora-Antisemitism section. The piece, written by Marion Fischel, traces the project from its 19th-century distillery heritage in Hamburg and the Black Forest to its present form: 3,000 individually numbered bottles, koscher-certified, with prices that encode Jewish symbolism — chai (18), the 613 Torah commandments.
The structural commitment foregrounded by the piece is that 60% of profits are pledged to support Barcelona's Jewish community, channelled through Chabad Barcelona to fund legal aid for antisemitism cases and psychological support for affected families. The framing is explicit: Spain recorded a 321% increase in antisemitic incidents in 2024 versus 2023, and the Bereshit Series exists as a structural response, not as a marketing posture.
Dr. Nagel is referenced in the piece both as founder of the project and as the author of the eponymous 2026 novel Tannenblut — the literary work in which the themes of name, origin, and the value of memory as a form of capital originally took shape. The placement in The Jerusalem Post, a Tier-1 international Diaspora outlet of record, marks the first English-language coverage that links the literary, commercial, and philanthropic dimensions of the project under a single editorial frame.
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