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Illustrative: Eggs stacked on shelves at the Osher Ad supermarket in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem, October 27, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 29, 2026, 10:29 pm
Flour costs rise, egg prices to jump, with Israelis already short on dough
Egg prices go up 2.1% on Sunday; flour is reportedly set to rise by as much as 14%, with bread, pasta and other staples likely to follow, in fresh blow to households stretched thin by cost-of-living crisis
By Sharon Wrobel
A Box of Grossinger's Rye Cracker Boards, produced by Streit's Matzos. (Courtesy Harris Salomon via JTA)
July 29, 2025, 12:51 am
Grossinger’s iconic rye bread rises again — in a new form
The Borscht Belt resort that served as the inspiration for ‘Dirty Dancing’ is the subject of a new scripted TV show – and it’s launching a product aimed at stoking fans’ appetites
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Then-public security minister Omer Barlev attends a Labor faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on May 16, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 4, 2023, 7:41 pm
Following Haredi boycott, Angel Bakeries apologizes for chairman’s Bnei Brak protest
Ex-minister Omer Barlev, now executive of company, pays condolence call to family of Rabbi Gershon Edelstein and delivers personal apology letter over incident
By Canaan Lidor
View of the HaEmek Medical Center in Afula, Israel on February 12, 2018. (Flash90/ File)
March 20, 2023, 9:23 pm
Bill to let hospitals ban leavened bread over Passover cleared for final readings
Legislation’s authors note proposal doesn’t include enforcement measures, as opposition lawmakers denounce so-called hametz law as an assault on civil liberties
By Canaan Lidor
White sliced bread seen at the Angel Bakeries Factory in Jerusalem, August 16, 2010. (Abir Sultan/Flash90/File)
July 13, 2022, 10:34 pm
Government announces 20% rise in price of regulated bread
Affected products include sliced and unsliced white and dark loaves, challah; economy minister vows to lower prices once cost of raw materials goes down
By Tobias Siegal
Before working with a wholesale bakery, Meckler would wake up at 5:30 each Friday morning and bake two batches of 32 loaves for pickups in the evening. (Courtesy of Meckler/ via JTA)
May 6, 2022, 1:56 am
How Dolly Meckler turned her challah-baking hobby into a fast-rising business
Featured in Forbes and the New Yorker, the baker says she wasn’t the ‘kitchen type’ before the pandemic, but social media savvy from working in entertainment has got her on a roll
By Jane Herz
Cookbook author Ruth Nieman looking at grains being milled in Hagay and The Bread, the Kibbutz Einat bakery of Hagay Ben Yehuda on February 23, 2022 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
March 19, 2022, 6:31 pm
Forgotten grains make a comeback in new cookbook from the ‘queen of freekeh’
British cookbook writer Ruth Nieman offers readers research into ancient grains once popular in the Middle East and Europe, and recipes for everything from emmer wheat to sourdough
By Jessica Steinberg
A woman leaves a bakery with a bag of bread as people wait for their turn, in the neighborhood of Nabaa in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs, on August 13, 2021, amid a wave of shortages of basic items due to a severe economic crisis. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
August 14, 2021, 9:58 pm
‘Nothing left’: Crisis-hit Lebanon faces growing bread shortages
Bakeries still able to operate amid electricity cuts are rationing output to make state-subsidized flour last longer, reducing supply and leading to long lines
By Christy-Belle Geha
Swiss challah baker Katharina Arrigoni. (Courtesy/ via JTA)
July 2, 2021, 10:32 pm
How a non-Jewish Swiss baker’s challah up-braided the internet
Though she’s never tasted an actual loaf of challah she hasn’t baked herself, master breadmaker Katharina Arrigoni inspires grateful established bakers with her novel techniques
By Rachel Ringler
Devorah and David Katz of Pat Bamelach, the Efrat-based artisanal bakery that shares its sourdough recipes and starter, particularly during corona times. (courtesy, Pat Bamelach)
May 20, 2020, 12:09 pm
Sourdough bread gives rise to community of bakers during pandemic
From the alchemy of the yeasty starter to the wonders of a crusty, scored loaf, professional and home chefs share their secrets
By Jessica Steinberg
Charly Lowy in Brussels, Belgium. (Courtesy of Lowy/via JTA)
November 8, 2019, 4:11 pm
Belgian Jewish baker launches mass-produced cannabis bread
When it hits the shelves later this month, the organic Cannabread will have the taste and smell of the plant without the intoxicating effects, says Lowy bakery
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center right, and wife Sara, walk to visit a monument in Babi Yar ravine where Nazi troops machine-gunned many thousands of Jews during WWII, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 19, 2019. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
August 20, 2019, 1:52 am
Netanyahu pushes back on critics after wife’s bread brouhaha
PM says Sara did not disrespect hosts, actually honored them by sporting national colors, lashes out at media for focus on gossip
By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara are greeted at the airport in Kiev by Ukrainians dressed in traditional outfits on August 18, 2019. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
August 19, 2019, 6:29 pm
PM’s wife gets rise out of Ukrainians by spurning traditional bread
Video shows Sara Netanyahu dropping piece of welcome ‘karavai’ on ground rather than eat it after landing in Kyiv
By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren
(Michael Jacobs/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)
December 20, 2018, 4:26 pm
The Jewish food trends you’ll be seeing in 2019
Challah bread is considered healthy again, tahini’s popularity is growing and an Israeli company is now offering a weed-infused flavor of ice cream
By Shannon Sarna
Sara Lee and Bimbo bread products are displayed together in a Chicago store in 2010. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
December 12, 2018, 6:33 am
A lot of the bread in the US will no longer be kosher
Bimbo Bakeries USA, which produces the Arnold, Sara Lee, Stroehmann and Freihofer brands, to remove certification, says exploring ‘alternative solutions’
By Ben Sales
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