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Hundreds of Jewish women come together to celebrate challah, a traditional braided bread

The fourth annual Mega Challah Bake brought 200 Jewish women together to celebrate this traditional holiday and Shabbat bread. TREASURE ISLAND — Huguette Levy, 93, is from Algiers. Her daughter, ... read more

Challah: The Bread That Beckons Day of Rest

Baking bread was a female ritual, and in some contemporary Rosh Chodesh [New Moon] gatherings, 40 women come together ... Jewish Lehigh University faculty and students wanted to celebrate Shabbat. The ... read more

Challah baking event planned

For some women, baking challah bread will be a new experience, while for others it will be a familiar weekly ritual, but when hundreds of Jewish women ... of unity for all sections of the Jewish ... read more

Learning to bake challah, with a little Jewish tradition

Over 350 women with all levels of baking experience came together for the Mega Challah Bake on March 18 in Mansfield to learn the time-honored ritual of mixing, kneading, and braiding the bread. The ... read more

Jewish congregations to reflect on the past year and look ahead to the new during High Holy Days

The sweetness of the traditional ... Jewish New Year. “We eat these sweet foods as a toast to the sweet year that is to come,” explained Asch, 78, noting a similarity with other High Holy Day ... read more

The Meaning Behind Traditional Jewish New Year Foods

Extended families come together ... bread and apples into throughout the meal, and a blessing is said over the first bite wishing everyone a good and sweet year to come. Most Jewish holiday meals ... read more

Shabbat San Diego Experience is Global Model for Open, Inclusive Jewish Celebrations Oct. 26-28

While the San Diego Jewish community will participate together ... men, women and children from all walks of Jewish life are invited to join a Challah Bake of their choice scheduled throughout the ... read more

How one congregation gets ready to share Bubbie

In 2008, Randy and Suzi Stark, who attend Columbia’s Beth Shalom Synagogue, launched a contest and fundraiser to see who in their congregation prepared the best brisket, matzoh, challah and other ... read more

Once upon a Cookbook! Vegan and other ways to end Yom Kippur

The women – whose stories are told in the book, along with recipes for condiments, breads, drinks and main meals – come together each day in a tiny kitchen to feed hundreds of students ... that is ... read more

Six Brilliant Student Essays on the Power of Food to Spark Social Change

From the hundreds ... for their bread to rise as they fled slavery in Egypt. The hamantaschen was an homage to the hat of Haman, the villain of the Purim story who plotted the Jewish people’s ... read more