Challah, like most bread, is fairly straightforward — flour, yeast, water, eggs, and maybe a few other ingredients, depending on your recipe. But as we’ve seen with the recent trend for fancily ...

Born and raised in Tel Aviv, chef Tom Aviv became a household name in Israel after winning “MasterChef Israel” in 2016, despite having no formal culinary training. He went on to open multiple ...

Adapted from a recipe by Joan Nathan, Batsheva Hay’s preferred iteration of the classic Jewish bread is worth the time commitment. By Nancy Coleman Typically, the fashion designer Batsheva Hay ...

It began as an experimental baking project when I was a busy young mother with three young children and adorable little nieces and nephews. As pre-schoolers, every Friday my boys brought home ...

Armando Rafael for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Laurie Ellen Pellicano. This challah recipe is ideal for first-time bread bakers, as it contains several checks and tests to indicate exactly when ...

It would not be Rosh Hashanah without a nice, round challah to dip in honey. To mix up your regular holiday challah routine, here are two fun options to try. Cookbook author Faith Kramer’s recipe for ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the year 70, the Roman Empire destroyed what was known as the Second Temple in Jerusalem and, with that, the ability of the Jewish people to continue ...

Bread — shaping it, baking it, blessing it and sharing it — is part of almost every Jewish holiday. The bond among Jews, God and bread goes back to the first five books of the Bible: As the Israelites ...

CHESTNUT HILL (WHDH) — Sunday night marks the start of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. Foods served during the holiday are sweet and abundant, like Challah bread. At Chabad of Chestnut Hill, ...

In March of last year, Dolly Meckler, like so many others, decided to try her hand at sourdough. “And then I read a recipe,” she told me the other day, “and I saw this thing called starter, and I was, ...