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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. Originally appeared on www.nextbook.org, April 6, 2009