A Candy Crisis Has Cast a Pall on Upcoming Bar and Bat Mitzvahs

In Memoriam: Mourning the death of Sunkist Fruit Gems

Sunkist Fruit Gems were kosher, they were soft enough not to cause welts on the foreheads of 13-year-olds, and they were individually wrapped so they wouldn’t get stuck on the floor.

A candy crisis has cast a pall on upcoming bar and bat mitzvahs

Ahead of my New Jersey synagogue’s first bar mitzvah this weekend, we learned that Sunkist Fruit Gems, the popular sacred confection lovingly lobbed at the end of many services to shower the b’nai mitzvah boy or girl with sweetness, had been discontinued by its candy maker. I dreaded delivering this news to my son and daughter, Max and Rose, who are beginning to celebrate their classmates’ bar and bat mitzvahs and prepare for their own. For chil…

Sunkist Fruit Gems discontinued, bar and bat mitzvah boys, girls will have to duck something else

"I can't think of many bar or bat mitzvahs that I've attended where these candies were not thrown and given out," Dani Klein, of YeahThatsKosher, told JNS.

Sunkist Fruit Gems Discontinued; New Kosher Dupe Product Coming • YeahThatsKosher - Dining and Cooking

After more than 70 years, Sunkist Fruit Gems are off store shelves. Ferrara Candy Company, which owns Jelly Belly, stopped selling the sugar-coated fruit candies on May 1, according to a Ferrara customer service representative who spoke with eJewishPhilanthropy. The good news for anyone planning a simcha: a new kosher dupe is on the way. [...]

Sunkist Fruit Gems Discontinued; New Kosher Dupe Product Coming • YeahThatsKosher

Sunkist Fruit Gems, the OU-certified candy thrown at bar mitzvahs and aufrufs for decades, are off shelves after Ferrara discontinued them. A new kosher dupe, Clever Candy Fruit Jelly Jewels, is coming to replace them.

Sunkist Fruit Gems, a colorful staple of synagogue celebrations, discontinued

After more than a half-century of sweetening Jewish events, the kosher staple Sunkist Fruit Gems has been discontinued as of May, eJewishPhilanthropy has learned. The neon-colored candy is ubiquitous with Jewish celebrations; nearly every bar and bat mitzvah and aufruf in America features the celebrants getting showered in the candy. The omnipresent gems line tables... The post Sunkist Fruit Gems, a colorful staple of synagogue celebrations, di…