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Great Big Challah Bake!

Aish Detroit gets 800 people baking messy,
yummy challah for the global Shabbat Project.

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ore than 800 participants —
each with a table setting with
an apron, mixing bowl, measur-
ing cup and ingredients — took part in
the annual “Great Big Challah Bake” at the
Royal Oak Farmers Market on Nov. 10.
Acting as lead sponsor, Aish HaTorah
Detroit organized the event with community
partners the Birmingham Bloomfield Chai
Center and Partners Detroit. The activity
was part of the Shabbat Project, a global

event that originated in Johannesburg,
South Africa, three years ago. This year, the
project reached 1,150 cities in 94 countries,
with an estimated 1 million people partici-
pating.
In Detroit, attendees included friends,
relatives, newcomers and many generations
all in one family. The baking was fun and
messy, but the results were delicious.
Other sponsors included Kroger, One Stop
Kosher, Pegasus and Star Trax.

Dena Stein is
the loser in
a flour fight
with Leah
Hellerstein,
both of
Southfield.

Sisters Bonnie Growe and Mimi Gross, both of Oak Park, and
Marrin Itenberg of Huntington Woods show their braided loaves.

Devorah
Magier
takes a selfie
with Yaffa
and Sara
Magier, all of
Southfield,
Natalie Kahn
of Huntington
Woods and
Shifra Cahan
of Oak Park.

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Participants enjoy a little dance time while they wait for their dough to rise.

Volunteer Deborah Snow of Southfield with
empty flour and sugar bags

Michele Gershonowicz of Detroit shows she is all in when it
comes to kneading dough.

Annette Kaner of West Bloomfield and Amy
Sternfeld of Bloomfield Hills mix their ingredi-
ents in a plastic bag.

Eliana Israilov, 10, of West Bloomfield adds eggs
while her mother, Angela, looks on.

Aish Detroit member Rachel
Rosenthal of Oak Park
introduces Elizabeth Kurtz,
food columnist and creator of
gourmetkoshercooking.com,
to direct the recipe.

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