Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hanukkah, also known as Chanukah, is a Jewish holiday that celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the ...

There’s no better way to celebrate Rosh Hashanah than with a warm, golden loaf of freshly baked challah. This slightly sweet, egg-enriched bread isn’t just delicious—it’s deeply tied to Jewish ...

Challah changed Dr. Beth Ricanati’s life. More than 15 years ago, she started baking challah on Fridays as a self-care ritual, an experience illustrated in her memoir, Braided: A Journey of a Thousand ...

Alongside all the esoteric wisdom that is imparted during the holiday of Pesach, there are some really basic, but rather important lessons that this holiday has imprinted on me. The first lesson is to ...

This article originally appeared on The Nosher. Challah baker Katharina Arrigoni lives in a town in northern Switzerland with 3,000 residents, none of whom — including Arrigoni – are Jewish. Entirely ...

This year the Jewish New Year starts at sundown Sept. 15. The name "Rosh Hashanah" means "head of the year." The similarity between the Jewish New Year and the American one is that most Americans use ...

Montgomery County sheriff’s investigators arrested Jeremy Michael Buckner, 35, of Porter, in connection with a fatal hit-and-run on U.S. Highway 59. Detectives arrest Porter man in deadly hit-and-run ...

On Friday afternoons at my house, the last 15 minutes before candle-lighting is classic pre-shabbos hysteria. “Did you turn on the shabbos lamp yet?” “Fill up the water urn — and don’t forget to plug ...

Just about every Friday, for Shabbat, my colleague Olga Massov makes challah. I know this because each week she takes a photo of the supple dough and posts it to her Instagram stories. Then she ...