{"id":48,"date":"2025-12-08T23:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/breadgroup\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2025-12-11T03:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:55:10","slug":"challah","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/breadgroup\/career\/challah\/","title":{"rendered":"(C)hallah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/breadgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2025\/12\/Unknown.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-250\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"243\" height=\"207\" src=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/breadgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2025\/12\/Unknown-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-255\" style=\"width:303px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Representing Demographic: Jewish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(C)hallah is a sweet, braided bread that is typically eaten on the Jewish Sabbath and holidays. The name \u201c(c)hallah\u201d appears to have first been used in East Germany in the Middle Ages, while others say it started in the 15th century in Austria (<a href=\"https:\/\/aish.com\/a_brief_history_of_challah\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/aish.com\/a_brief_history_of_challah\/\">Aish.com<\/a>). (C)hallah is much sweeter than a typical bread, and it&#8217;s brushed with an egg wash. Sugar was first added to dough in Poland, where sugar beets were grown, and then became even sweeter in America (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/the-nosher\/a-short-history-of-challah-bread-and-how-it-got-so-sweet-in-america\/\">The Nosher<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New York City remains home to the largest Jewish population in the country, with 960,000 Jews in New York City, with 412,000 more in the three suburban counties, according to a<a href=\"https:\/\/communitystudy.ujafedny.org\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/communitystudy.ujafedny.org\"> 2023 community study done by the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) of NY<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representing Demographic: Jewish. (C)hallah is a sweet, braided bread that is typically eaten on the Jewish Sabbath and holidays. The name \u201c(c)hallah\u201d appears to have first been used in East Germany in the Middle Ages, while others say it started in the 15th century in Austria (Aish.com). (C)hallah is much sweeter than a typical bread,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":811,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/breadgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/breadgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/breadgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/breadgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/breadgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/breadgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/breadgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/260"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/breadgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/breadgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}