Bakery

Sweetening the new year: How Jewish food becomes family tradition - opinion

Jewish food is more than what Jews eat. It is what becomes woven into family life, memory, tradition, and the freedom to change what came before.

EMMER & CANE baked goods. Yum!
Lasange

Biga: Something for everyone - restaurant review

Babka & Krantz, a Berlin Jewish bakery, closed citing harassment as well as economic pressure, as seen in June 2026.

Celebrated Berlin Jewish bakery closes, citing harassment since October 7

Mattarello’s famous scrambled egg croissant.

Everyone is standing in line: Israel’s most talked-about pastry awaits you in Binyamina


Australian Jews break world record for longest challah

Grandma Moses Bakery, in partnership with the Jewish National Fund chapter in New South Wales, broke the record on Thursday, according to a Facebook post from the group.

Round Sweet Challah

Belgian Jewish baker launches Europe’s first mass-produced cannabis bread

Cannabread will be available for purchase in Carrefour supermarkets in Brussels and two other Belgian cities later in November.

Employee tends to medical cannabis plants at Pharmocann, an Israeli medical cannabis company in northern Israel

Cakes and eggs destroyed for health reasons at Haba bakery in Jerusalem

Roughly 20 kg. of cream cakes were destroyed by order of health inspectors after it was discovered that the business did not possess a valid business license.

Vanilla cream cake

Romancing the ciabatta

Few breads are especially suited to our hot, Mediterranean climate, but one country has perfected a light, summery bread – Italy – and it is called the ciabatta.

THE CIABATTA: Traditional yet revolutionary.

In the Grain: Reminiscences of a baker

As I lovingly shape another NY rye bread, perhaps the 14,017th one since I started our artisan bakery 10 years ago, I contemplate my youthful folly of 1984.

Bread

Beit El baker talks hamantashen ahead of Purim

This article was first published by The Heart of Israel and is republished with permission.

Herby Dan in his bakery

Iconic Manhattan Jewish bakery shuts its doors

Speculation that Moishe's Bake Shop could reopen running rampant among babka and strudel devotees.

The Moishe's Bake Shop location in the East Village in 2012

Showing the world the showbread

Baker Les Saidel was entranced by the Biblical showbread – the 12 loaves of unleavened bread in the Tabernacle and later in the Holy Temple.

Mystery of the Temple’s ancient breads: Les Saidel presents the final product, according to Rebi Hanina – the ‘teiva prutza’ (box without a lid).

Bimbo bread is back for kosher consumers

The company's announcement in November that it was dropping kosher certification on all their bread products created an uproar among kosher consumers.

Loaves of bread of Mexican breadmaker Grupo Bimbo are pictured at a convenience store in Monterrey, Mexico, August 6, 2018

'Pita pocket' crime: Bakery owner suspected of tax evasion by U.S, Israel

Famous bakery owner suspected of international tax evasion to the tune of NIS tens of millions.

Pita bread