For as long as I can remember, my mother baked fresh Challah every Friday. The bread was soft, never too sweet, and pulled apart with ease. While Los Angeles at the time was not famous for its bread, ...

Sara Loffman and her siblings, Hannah, Marni and Eliana, grew up learning of the Jewish value of tikkun olam or “repairing the world.” When the COVID lockdowns spread isolation and lack of connection, ...

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ToI's movie maven and deputy editor on a Sadie Sandler Netflix vehicle -- currently #1 in Israel -- and a 13-minute ...

If you opened a social media app at any moment the past few months, you’d think everyone sheltering in place was baking crusty loaves of sourdough or feeding their finicky starters. But for Dolly ...

Forget boring braids, it’s all about key-shaped challah this Shabbat! Shlissel challah, Yiddish for “key challah,” is a post-Passover tradition symbolizing unlocking prosperity for the coming year.

Topekan Hannah Schifman had just finished graduate school in 2020 and, like for many others, finding a job was proving to be difficult for her. So while at a standstill in the job hunt, she decided to ...

As soon as Becca Stern heard the Challah Prince was coming to Long Island from Israel, the 42-year-old assistant preschool teacher from Stony Brook bought a ticket even though chances were slim she ...