{"id":7631,"date":"2014-09-19T00:29:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T07:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=7631"},"modified":"2014-09-18T18:15:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T01:15:50","slug":"challah-baking-lessons-from-an-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2014\/09\/19\/challah-baking-lessons-from-an-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Challah baking lessons from an expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>More than 120 women attended Community Mega Challah Bake that was led by challah-baking expert Rochie Pinson, who also gave a lecture. (<\/strong><strong><em>photo from\u00a0Chabad Lubavitch BC)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More than 120 women from across Greater Vancouver gathered on Wednesday evening, Sept. 10, for the Community Mega Challah Bake at the Lubavitch Centre. The event was a joint project of N\u2019Shei Chabad of British Columbia, the Chabad centres of Vancouver, Downtown Vancouver, East Vancouver, Richmond, University of British Columbia and White Rock, Congregation Beth Hamidrash and Congregation Schara Tzedeck.<\/p>\n<p>First, the women made and kneaded their own dough, led by challah baking expert Rochie Pinson of New York. They then enjoyed mingling and refreshments and a lecture by Pinson about the deeper significance of challah making and Rosh Hashanah. After that, they returned to their baking stations to braid their challah, once again led by Pinson, who demonstrated various methods of braiding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had such a wonderful time and I was so happy to see the different organizations coming together for this event,\u201d said one participant as she left with two beautifully braided challahs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe evening surpassed all of our expectations!\u201d said Henya Wineberg, co-coordinator of the event. \u201cThe display of unity in the community was heartwarming to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pinson, who teaches challah-baking workshops to women across the world, will be publishing a book about challah baking titled <em>Rising<\/em>, with an expected release date of fall 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 120 women attended Community Mega Challah Bake that was led by challah-baking expert Rochie Pinson, who also gave a lecture. (photo from\u00a0Chabad Lubavitch BC) More than 120 women from across Greater Vancouver gathered on Wednesday evening, Sept. 10, for the Community Mega Challah Bake at the Lubavitch Centre. The event was a joint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4386,1980,1981],"class_list":["post-7631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-chabad-lubavitch-bc","tag-challah","tag-rochie-pinson"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}