Challah, the symbolic bread eaten during Jewish holidays, also happens to be delicious. An eggy, dense bread brushed with egg yolk, sometimes sprinkled with seeds and sometimes with raisins inside, it ...

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 ...