Welcome to the
EVERYTHING CHALLAH INCREDIBLE EXTRAVAGANZA!
PLUS! 15+ world class presenters, speakers and challah bakers!
Leah Richeimer…Rebbetzin Rachel Kushelevsky…Rebbetzin Shira Smiles…Gila Levitt…Henny Shor…Chany Felberbaum…Chayelleh Rose…Rivka Malka Perlman…Sarah Faygie Berkowitz…Elisheva Azerad…Yocheved Rottenberg…Miriam Gitlin…Chany Rosengarten…Rivka Bar Horin & the Incredible Challah Game Show!…Rabbi Menachen Nissel…and many more!
So...
Whether you bake challah every week, are just beginning,
or even if you don’t bake at all,
and excited to be a Jewish woman.
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What Is the Challah Extravaganza?
The Challah Extravaganza is a first-of-its-kind online event for Jewish women who are intrigued about a deeper connection to their families, their heritage and their souls through challah — not only as something we bake, but as something that brings warmth, meaning, and ruchniyus into our homes.
This event brings together challah enthusiasts, inspirational women, bakers, and thoughtful voices from around the world to explore challah from many angles: its traditions, its symbolism, the intention we bring to it, and the way it shapes the atmosphere of our homes and of course, our Shabbos tables.
And maybe even, our entire lives.
Some sessions focus on the practical side
— dough, braiding, and technique.
Others focus on what challah represents:
the prayers we whisper while baking, the sense of continuity it carries, and the role it plays in creating a warm Jewish home.
So how does this Challah Extravaganza work?
Each day you will get FREE ACCESS for 24 hours to that day’s scheduled presentations. You can come on and off during that time, whenever it works for you.
Plus!
You don’t need to bake every week.
You don’t need to consider yourself “a challah baker.”
If challah has ever felt meaningful to you — if it has ever felt like more than just bread —
this gathering is for you.
For free!
Magical Challah Moments…
The joy and meaning behind challah baking.
Rebbetzin Shira Smiles
Eating's Energy
Shira Smiles is a mechanechet at Darchei Binah Hachadash, and an adult lecturer at the OU Israel center. She teaches classes for adults in Ramat Bet Shemesh, Jerusalem and zooms to the US. She is the author of the five volume set on Chumash Torah Tapestry, and Arise and Aspire on Birkot Hashachar. Mrs. Smiles writes a weekly column for the OU Torah Tidbits, and a monthly article for Mishpacha magazine. Over 1,000 hours of Parsha shiurim can be accessed at Naaleh.com or Yutorah.org
Rebbetzin Rachel Kushelevsky
The Adar Spirit: Bring Simcha Into our Mitzvahs
Rebbetzin Rachel Kushelevsky is the wife of Rav Tzvi Kushelevsky, shlita, and together they are the parents of Rav Tzvi’s “Miracle baby”. You can read more about this incredible story in their book Miracle Baby. Their miracle baby story has taken the entire world by storm and Rebbetzin Kushelevsky speaks and inspires thousands of women worldwide with her warm words of chizuk that truly– Hashem can do ANYTHING.
Alisa Avruch
Elevating the mundane: The power of the Jewish woman.
Alisa Avruch is a marriage educator, mentor, and Certified Transformation Life Coach, with training from Rivka Malka Perlman and Rivke Gardner. She empowers frum women to bring more emotional intimacy and a deeper connection to their marriage, through hands-on skills, self awareness, emotional regulation and mindset shifts, grounded in the Torah-true values of the Mashpia/Mekabel relationship.
Chany Felberbaum
Your Challah; what it's whispering from your neshama
Chany Felberbaum is a Trained Demartini Method Facilitator, Energy Therapist and Trauma & Relationship Coach. With דשמיא סייעתא Chany has helped thousands of women stop living a life of struggle & survival, heal deep traumas and relationships & finally start thriving, without spending years in therapy. Chany is passionate about seeing every single Yiddishe Woman experience profound healing and inner peace and thrive in her marriage, and in her relationship with Hashem, herself, and others. You can find many free classes on healing and marriage on her website.
Leah Richeimer
Kneading Shalom
Want to know the secret that can shift your entire home? When you make challah after hearing this, it won’t just be the delicious aroma wafting through your house…
Leah Richeimer is the author of Marriage Secrets by Artscroll, and the host of the weekly video podcast, The Ladies Talkshow. She is the founder of the nonprofit charity, The Marriage Campaign, dedicated to spreading Shalom Bayis education. Her Podcast has 8 million views, and you can watch hundreds of free classes on her website.
Chany Rosengarten
Your Challah, Your Spark, Your Power -- Discover it!
Chany Rosengarten is the founder of Woman of Valor and the bestselling author of The Boundary Is You. Through her writing, retreats, and transformational programs, she guides women back to themselves—into greater self-respect, emotional clarity, and inner strength. With warmth, wisdom, and a deeply human approach, Chany creates spaces where women feel safe to soften, reflect, and grow. Her work weaves together emotional healing, spiritual grounding, and practical tools for life, relationships, and self-worth. Whether through intimate retreats, powerful courses, or heartfelt conversations, Chany’s mission is simple: to help women feel more at home in themselves, more confident in their boundaries, and more alive in their lives. She believes that when a woman reconnects with her own voice and value, everything around her begins to shift—gently, beautifully, and for the better.
What you (& your children) will do with your piece of challah...when we have the Bais Hamikdash!
Ellie Azerad is a speaker, author of Frum Minimalism, and the founder of the Frum Minimalism movement. Known for her fun, energetic style, Ellie doesn’t just inspire, she gets you to take action. Fast. Her talks and classes are for overwhelmed women who are tired of feeling stuck. Ellie shows you how to move, decide, and finally get rid of what’s weighing you down, once and for all, so you can start living your best life with the people you love. Through her classes and workshops, Ellie is passionate about helping you stop overthinking and start doing. Because when you clear the clutter, you don’t just change your home, you change your life.
Designing Your Personal Challah Prayer
Yocheved Rottenberg is the leading therapeutic writing facilitator in the frum community worldwide. Her classes meld Therapeutic Journaling, Expressive Arts, IFS, Trauma modalities and Nurtured Heart Approach to integrate Torah wisdom into daily life. Learn more about her groundbreaking work, her life-changing workshops, her best-selling books, and free classes on her site, “Write Your Way Home.com.” Join her informative email group which incudes a free gift ebook, powerful rosh chodesh writing prompt each month, free classes and more.
The Secret of Imperfection
Chayelle Rose is a 3P Coach who helps mums find more peace, joy, and productivity in daily life. Her flagship program, Present Parenting, has helped parents of every age develop presence in everyday moments so family life feels lighter, more connected, and more fun. During the summer months, Chayelle also creates focused mini-programs that have inspired and delighted thousands of women worldwide. This summer, Chayelle is launching a new program focused on helping you move your ideas out of your head and into real life. Idea-Action walks you through the process of turning what matters to you into something tangible and is designed to help you stop overthinking and start bringing your ideas into the world, clearly and confidently. You don’t have to wait for the program to begin. Download the free guide Turn Your Idea into Action.
Shaping Dough, Shaping Self: Challah as a Feminine Act of Creativity and Connection
Hi, I’m Miriam. I’m a certified therapist and life coach and creator of The Shalva Shift™I’m passionate about helping frum women struggling with major life challenges bring more joy, serenity, and
For over a decade I’ve worked to empower women to be shalem from the inside out — by improving their marriages, parenting, and relationships, overcoming overwhelm, developing true bitachon and closeness with Hashem, and most of all, living life as the incredible, unique women they are.
Challah, Shabbos, Chatzos -- Bringing it together with Calm and Peace
Sarah Faygie Berkowitz is the Founder and Director of Gift of Chatzos, a movement helping families shift Shabbos prep earlier in the week to experience more calm on Friday, and bring in Shabbos with excitement and joy. A nonprofit marketing director by profession and a writer for Mishpacha magazine, she blends strategy, education, and real-life practicality in all her work. Sarah Faygie is also an advocate for healthy, beautiful eating and creates programs and guides that make nutritious choices more doable in busy homes. She is passionate about giving women realistic systems and supportive frameworks that take them from overwhelmed to inspired. Her approach is warm, practical, and action-oriented, focused on small changes that create meaningful, lasting results.
Challah Bakes -- Stories of Challah Fun and Connection!
Henny Shor is a kitchen coach who helps women approach Shabbat and Chag prep with confidence and calm. She works with women through private and group coaching and leads exciting, hands-on kitchen workshops such as challah bakes, hamantaschen, sushi making, and more. She also runs a free WhatsApp community and writes a bi-weekly food column for The Jerusalem Post Magazine. For women ready for calmer cooking and less stress around dinner, Shabbat, and Chagim.
Challah & Becoming Your Personal Queen
Rivka Malka trains and certifies women in transformation life coaching. Following a near-death experience she is on a mission to spread Hashem’s love.
WOMEN AND FOOD AND Davenning too!
Gila Levitt is a Torah educator and marriage specialist with over 30 years of experience guiding Jewish women and couples toward emotionally connected, deeply fulfilling marriages. She is the founder of Heart of Marriage, an educational platform offering a range of programs for women and couples across all ages and stages of marriage. Her work weaves timeless Torah wisdom with contemporary insights from emotional intelligence, brain science, and relational development, anchored in authentic Torah sources. Gila’s teaching is known for its depth, warmth, humor, and deep respect for a woman’s inner world and spiritual responsibility. At the heart of her message is the avodah of the Jewish woman—clarity of self, emotional awareness, and intentional presence within marriage and beyond. Through thoughtful guidance and practical perspective, she helps women grow into their best self: an authentic Bas Yisroel, giving nachas to the Borei Olam.
Game Show!
Rivka Ruchie Bar Horin has been running her game show company – Clickerz Game Show – for 5 + years. With 200+! shows under her belt, she’s done it all: bas mitzvahs, camps, schools, staff, corporate, family, organizations and more. Every show is fully interactive, highly energetic and plain ol’ fun!
Rebbetzen Tamar Taback
Challah through the lens of the Imahos
For the past twenty years, Rebbetzin Tamar Taback has been exploring classical, Chassidic and Kabbalistic Torah sources in search of answers for the rising Jewish woman of our generation. She is the founder of the Nexus School of Transformational Torah for Women where profound teachings are translated into a language that is relevant, practical, and life-changing. She is blessed to share gentle yet powerful paradigm-shifts with women around the world as they reawaken to their highest feminine potential
HAFRASHAS CHALLAH: A taste of Olam Haba
Rav Menachem Nissel is a renowned speaker who has inspired thousands throughout the world. He is a widely published author including the highly acclaimed Rigshei Lev: Women and Tefillah and Looking into the Sun: The Torah, Life & Legacy of Rav Moshe Shapira. He is a writer for Mishpacha magazine, a maggid shiur in Yeshivas Yishrei Lev and teaches in seminaries in Jerusalem. He is the Senior Educator for NCSY, a popular worldwide youth group
Whether you bake every week or are just beginning (or maybe never even do it at all!),
this event will leave you inspired, confident, and excited to be a Jewish woman!
Over two inspiring days, you’ll experience:
Inspiration on so many levels it will take your breath away (really!)
A deeply personal connection to the world community of all Jewish women
Beautiful challah demonstrations
Creative shaping and styling ideas
Baking tips you can use immediately
A warm, uplifting challah-centered community
Stories and insights and meaning and depth that will sit inside your heart forever afterwards…
What Makes This Summit Different
Be part of this never-been-done-before challah experience!
This isn’t a general Jewish summit with a challah session tacked on.
Challah is the focus here — not only how to make it, but what it brings into a Jewish home.
Instead of trying to cover everything, this summit stays with one thing: a shared love of the special mitzvah of challah, one of the three mitzvos uniquely given to Jewish women — and gives it the spotlight it deserves.
You’ll come away with practical ideas you can actually use, along with thoughtful conversations that help you see challah a little differently.
And, more than anything else,
you’ll gain a deeper sense of pride in being a Jewish woman today —
Join us!
Bring a friend or two or seven – the more, the better!
Why Should You Care About Challah?
Why Challah Still Matters
Challah matters
because it is one of our, the Jewish Woman’s, primary mitzvos, rooted in the Torah itself.
It is a mitzvah practiced by our matriarchs throughout every generation, from mother to daughter, grandmother to daughter, and carried forward by Jewish women in every generation. It has kept us connected through this chain over thousands of years, and across every continent!
As we separate challah, we are participating in something generational. This is the same mitzvah done in Jewish homes for thousands of years.
When we do this mitzvah correctly,
it brings bracha into the home, into the food we prepare, and into the special bread we call “Challah”, that rests on our Shabbos table, the heart of the home.
Challah connects our kitchens
to Torah, to mesorah, our Jewish tradition, and to the Jewish nation, across time and place.
And that is why it still matters.
and why it always will.
Hi! I’m Tamar Ansh,
Your Jerusalem Challah Experience hostess
Here are a few little fun facts about me:
WHO ITS FOR
The Challah Extravaganza is a 2-day online summit hosted by Tamar Ansh, bringing together
challah lovers
(yup, that should be YOU!)
Mothers, daughters granddaughters, grandmothers and great-grandmothers who love challah and just want to get their hands in the dough.
who are fascinated about all things challah…and Jewish inspo… and what it means to us today.
How does this work?
It’s simple and easy.
Register for the summit. Watch sessions online from anywhere in the world, from the comfort of your home (Or car. Or phone. Or living room! Wherever you like!) . You get to listen at your own pace. And the best part?
You can choose to bake too; or just ENJOY, LISTEN & ABSORB
How do I know whether this summit is right for me?
If you’re curious about Challah, shaping, sourdough, fun breads, gluten free or just about anything to do with Jewish breads, then this event is for you! We’ll be having a really great time hearing from so many incredible talented and famous women in this field PLUS just getting a chance to dive in and learn more about all that dough! (pun very much intended!)
When is this event happening?
The main portion of the summit runs from Monday, Feb 23rd 2026 – Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2026.
What if I’m not able to attend live?
While many of the presentations for the summit are pre-recorded, (to ensure a smooth viewing experience across all time zones for all of you!) there are some live elements that you’re going to want to get access to because they are going to be SO MUCH FUN!
The LIVE, Interactive sessions such as our Challah Game Show with Rivka Bar Horin, and some of the other live elements are only available live.
We’ve tried our best to put those at a time of day that is accessible to most time zones.
But not to worry: With your FREE TICKET you get access to the sessions of that day for a full 24 hours, all the way through to 11:59 pm EST of each day. So we encourage you to attend live if you can!
This EXTRAVAGANZA is much more than just sessions you view. some sessions are interactive — like the ones where you get to be mafrish challah alongside me. But most sessions are for you to just absorb, listen and RELAX. You can even watch them on the go if you have to do carpool, wash dishes, or take care of something at home just then!
How long will I have access to the presentations?
Your free ticket includes 24 hour access to each day of the presentations. If you need more time, you can always upgrade your ticket to our CHALLAH EXTRAVAGANZA ALL-ACCESS PASS, which will give you extended access to the presentations along with premium bonuses from our speakers… and more!
Are the presentations live?
To avoid tech glitches, give you the best possible experience, and keep things easy for the speakers, many (but not all!) of the presentations are pre-recorded and will be released at a scheduled time during the summit.
Will all the speakers get my email address?
Absolutely NOT.
When you register, you’ll be added to my special Challah & Crumbs and Chazak email list so we can send you updates for the event and links to each day’s presentations.
After the summit is over, you’ll continue to hear from me, but you can always choose to unsubscribe at any time.
Each of the speakers will have free resources available that you can access by providing an email address in order to download it, but the speakers will not get your email address from me unless you choose to give it to that speaker specifically. That way, you only hear from the people you really love and don’t have to worry about getting added to 272.5 email lists that you’re not interested in.
You can learn more in our Privacy Policy.
Challah Still Matters
So does gathering around it.
Come learn. Come Listen.
Come be part of it.
