An evening of women around one table, hands in the dough, talking while we braid. Most of what we make goes out the next morning to a neighbor who needs it — and a challah always comes home with you.
No experience, no apron, nothing to bring. If you have never braided a challah in your life, you are exactly who these evenings are for — someone will put her hands over yours and show you once, and then you have it.
Flour, oil, eggs, and a long table. There is a short thought on the mitzvah of challah, and then mostly there is conversation — the kind that only happens when everybody's hands are busy.
Everything comes out of the oven braided and golden. One goes home with you for your own Shabbat table; the rest are bagged for Loaves of Love and delivered around town before Shabbat.
That is on purpose. We hold challah bakes throughout the year rather than on a fixed calendar — sometimes at Chabad, sometimes around a community member's kitchen island, whenever there's a reason and a room full of women who want to bake.
So instead of a schedule, there's a list. Put your name on it and you'll hear from us as soon as the next one is set.
Put me on the listThe list is how you find out which square it lands on.
Loaves of Love brings challah and home-cooked meals to neighbors all over town — a new family we want to welcome, someone celebrating a simcha, someone recovering, or someone who'd simply love to know we're thinking of them.
The challahs braided at a bake are where that starts. They're bagged the same night and driven out the next day by volunteers, most of whom have no more qualification than a car and an hour.
And yes — you take one home. Nobody braids six challahs and leaves empty-handed.
Hadassa runs the Volunteer Circle and the challah bakes. If you'd rather ask a question than fill in a form — whether it's a good fit, whether you can bring a friend, whether there's anything you need to know first — write to her directly. She answers.
One short form. We'll email you when the next bake is on the calendar — no other lists, no other mail.
