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Hostage families attend a ceremony of writing a Torah scroll at the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in Meron, in northern Israel on March 10, 2024 (Photo by David Cohen/Flash90)
July 9, 2024, 10:45 am
Parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin launch ‘Week of Goodness’
Family aims to increase kindness, good deeds and generosity in the world in order to help bring about the redemption of 116 remaining October 7 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza
By Jessica Steinberg
NYC locals enjoy the world's longest challah, baked Jan. 19-20, 2023 with the help of volunteers and local businesses in New York and New Jersey. (Screenshot from Instagram, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 23, 2024, 7:34 pm
35-foot challah in NYC attempts to break Guinness record
Over 200 pounds of dough transformed into world’s longest challah for Jewish Federation of North America’s Shabbat of Love
By julia GERGELY
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
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
The Christian Passover seder with challah braided in the shape of a cross. (Screenshot/@clapifyoulikeme via JTA)
March 30, 2021, 10:11 pm
Christian Passover Seder with cross-shaped challah sparks online rage
Twitter user finds an extreme version of the ‘non-Jews putting an unkosher twist on the Jewish holiday meal’ stereotype
By Gabe Friedman
Performer John Legend, his wife Chrissy Teigen and their daughter Luna greet a crowd gathered during a drive-in "get out the vote" rally featuring Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, Nov. 2, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Michael Perez)
January 19, 2021, 10:45 pm
Chrissy Teigen makes her first Shabbat dinner
‘Wow I could never do this every Friday but it was beautiful!’ tweets model and TV personality, after preparing chicken soup, kugel and more
By Jessica Steinberg
Sara Loffman of the Challah Back Girls weighing the options -- coffee crumb or chocolate chip. (Courtesy)
September 14, 2020, 4:01 am
New Jersey’s Challah Back Girls raise dough for racial justice
Finding themselves under one roof again in COVID-19 era, the Loffman sisters use ingredients at hand — flour and Jewish values — to raise funds for charitable anti-racist causes
By Cathryn J. Prince
Sudeep Agarwala is a yeast scientist and challah enthusiast whose guidance for home bakers has taken off online. (Courtesy of Agarwala/ via JTA)
April 2, 2020, 4:15 pm
Challah-tinkering yeast scientist helps pandemic bread bakers get a good rise
Hindu-raised Sudeep Agarwala has made the traditional braided loaves for his Jewish husband for 10 years. Now that there’s a shortage of leaven, he knows just how to help
By PHILISSA CRAMER
President Ruby Rivlin reads Israeli classic 'Flat To Rent' by Lea Goldberg online on Thursday, March 19, 2020, during the coronavirus crisis (Courtesy Ruby Rivlin Facebook page)
March 20, 2020, 1:02 pm
Get online to exercise, forage, pray and even hike during your home stay
Everyone’s going online right now, offering services and classes for free during the extended quarantine caused by the COVID-19 crisis
By Jessica Steinberg
The 'roselach' at Breads Bakery are made with marzipan, rose water, and sprinkled with raspberry. (courtesy Breads Bakery)
February 14, 2020, 1:50 am
On Valentine’s, ditch roses and try ‘roselach’ instead, says Israeli baker in NY
Tastier than flowers, ‘roselach,’ or rugelach flavored with rosewater, are a fusion co-created by Breads Bakery owner Gadi Peleg strictly for the holiday of love
By Melanie Lidman
A kosher bakery in Sydney, Australia, breaks the Guinness world record for longest challah. (The Australian Jewish News/Facebook via JTA)
November 15, 2019, 3:28 am
Australian Jews bake world’s longest challah
Record-setting piece of bread is 32 feet long, made from 150 pounds of dough
By JTA
Elina Tilipman, left, and Sarah Klegman founded Challah Hub. (Sally Claire Photography/via JTA)
January 28, 2019, 5:02 am
These Jewish women got thousands of Instagram followers selling fresh challah
From coast to coast, more cottage bakers are peddling the traditional braided loaves — and while they say they’re not in it for the money, they’re taking the internet by storm
By Josefin Dolsten
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull addresses the media at Parliament House in Canberra, June 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)
July 15, 2018, 11:52 pm
Australian PM makes challah in Sydney yeshiva with grandson
Malcolm Turnbull presents $48,000 grant to improve security in renovating premises, receives book on Lubavitcher Rebbe
By JTA
Londoner Edwin Shuker visiting his native Baghdad in 2015. (Courtesy, Edwin Shuker)
December 26, 2017, 12:13 am
Iraqi Jews’ expulsion highlighted at UK Limmud festival
Documentary on first home purchased by a Jew in country in decades features alongside vagina museum and pictorial siddur at flagship event
By JTA
Tova Du Plessis opened Essen in South Philadelphia last year. (Ellen Scolnic/JTA)
October 28, 2017, 9:58 pm
South Philly’s hippest bakery has a Yiddish name
Essen brings a Jewish, Eastern European accent to a traditionally blue collar Italian neighborhood with its specialty chocolate halva babkas and range of challahs
By Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic
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