Viagra is kosher for Passover, an Israeli rabbi ruled. Mordechai Eliahu, the former chief Sephardic rabbi, reversed an earlier ruling banning the impotence pill because its coating apparently contains chametz, or leavening, which can not be consumed during the eight-day holiday.
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