Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
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Food Best Challahs in Chicago
As a college student in New York, potluck Shabbat meals were a weekly occurrence. Of course, not everyone could cook, or even had time to, so those guests were assigned the shopping jobs — drinks, fruit, and challah. As a rule, anyone assigned to bring challah really only had one choice — Bagel City. Anything…
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Food Best Loaf: Tasting the Store-Bought Challahs
Don’t live in New York, or in need an easy fix? We’ve got you covered. Below are three brands available in supermarkets across the country. The Challah Fairy Sesame Challah The problem with tasting store-bought challah right after a freshly baked loaf is that you instantly taste the difference. Thoughts like “This is a crust?…
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Food The Best Loaf: Bay Area Challahs
The San Francisco Bay Area has one of the largest Jewish populations in North America. But unlike communities in places like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Toronto, it has no identifiably Jewish neighborhoods filled with Jewish bakeries, butchers, delis and food shops. The lucky few who live near one of the local Jewish bakeries…
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Recipes When Rosh Hashanah Dinner Travels to China
As rich as the Ashkenazi Jewish tradition is, twice each year I wish I had descended from Sephardim. The first time is, of course, on Passover, when Sephardic tradition allows for grains. I imagine Passover breakfasts of sweet corn pancakes, and big, filling dinners of fried rice with spring’s first peas and scallions, and Passover…
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Food The Next Generation of Challah
People tend to get cultish about challah. Ask a group of friends where to find the best ritual Sabbath bread, like I recently did on Facebook, and within minutes a torrent of impassioned odes to various bakeries will flow forth. The success of these bakeries — like The Challah Fairy and Silver Moon Bakery in…
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Food Our Virtual Bubbe Answers Your Rosh Hashanah Cooking Questions
We asked you, our readers, to send us your Rosh Hashanah cooking questions to our virtual bubbe, cookbook author and food writer Adeena Sussman. She shares her kitchen wisdom, tips for making your first brisket, which new fruits to serve and how to get your holiday cooking done ahead of time. For more questions and…
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Food The Holiday Pour
Picking out wines to pair with holiday feasts can be tricky — especially when there are so many dishes on the table. We asked five wine and food experts what wines they serve for Rosh Hashanah and which classic dishes to pair them with. The bottles they highlighted are diverse by various measures, but there…
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Food The New Challahs on the Block
With Rosh Hashanah comes the eternal question: Which challah can do justice to your holiday table? Living in New York, one has no lack of options. In fact, there may be too many choices. There are, of course, the beautiful, glossy loaves from traditional bakeries that have stood the test of time, but there are…
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