Inspirational. Memorable. And Possibly Messy.
Let’s take a peek under my challah cover and make YOUR Jerusalem Challah Experience the best it can be!
Learn beautiful braiding techniques
Twist & braid your challahs in creative & different ways
Enjoy the feel of it with your own hands
Do it with friends, family, even your whole school
Eat your very own challahs!
Jerusalem Challah Experiences tend to book out 2 months in advance. To get your optimal date, book now
Family Events
Family fun days in Jerusalem Experience the magic with your entire family!
A quality activity that won't bore the teens or wear out the others...
It added so much to our daughter’s Bat Mitzvah!
“Thank you so much for your beautiful and meaningful challah presentation last night.
So many guests commented to me about what a beautiful presentation/demonstration it was, and how it added so much to our simcha. It was an amazing bas mitzvah presentation that everyone enjoyed!”
R. S.
Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel
Bat Mitzvah
Add hands-on holiness to your daughter’s big day. Experience sanctifying the dough with your bat mitzvah daughter, and you—her Mom! – and her friends! Each girl will roll, shape and create challahs together to take home to their families.
Family Fun with Challah
Visiting Israel with your family? Or do you already live here and just want something special for a Chanukah or family gathering? A great idea for a fun family day in Jerusalem making challahs with your whole family – up to 20 people.
Milestone birthdays
Turning 40? 70? Or 120? What a special milestone! Dedicate a challah mitzvah group of your own to celebrate your birthday or someone dear to you instead of just a plain birthday party – turn your special occasion into a beautiful mitzvah, an event to be remembered!
Challah Engagement Party
Mazel tov, it’s a kallah! Bring your new kallah enjoyment to her engagement party and learn challah — one of the three special mitzvahs of a Jewish woman — to her special day. Learn beautiful shapes, get the book too — the whole package is a unique present for any kallah!
The highlight of my birthday party!
“Your challah show was the highlight of my birthday! I have no words to describe what a beautiful, uplifting experience we had. A perfect combination of spirituality and fun, that left us all inspired.”
Avital Scheinerman
Ramat Bet Shemesh, Israel
Challah Prayer Group
Dedicate a challah group for the refuah shelaima / complete recovery of someone you know, or as a merit for your single sister or friend to get married. Very popular choice.
Wedding Day Simcha
Hands-on holiness – sanctify the dough with your kallah on her actual wedding day! I will then bake the challah and deliver it to the hall for the chosson and kallah’s very own “yichud room simcha challah” for their first meal together as a married couple.
9th Month
Special segulah in the 9th month of pregnancy. A woman taking challah in her 9th month gives protection to herself and her baby for safe and healthy delivery. Let’s do this mitzvah together and infuse your upcoming birth with holiness and prayer.
Yahrzeit
Organize a family gathering and do the mitzvah of challah as a merit for the soul of special family member on the day of their yahrtzeit. Especially meaningful when the departed’s own family descendants can all come together to remember them in this way.
We will remember you for a long time
“Thank you sooooo much for the challah show tonight. My kids loved you and my grandchildren will remember you for a long time… May HaShem bless you and yours with many smachot in good health and with good mazal.”
Sara B.
Ramat Sharet, Jerusalem
Tour Groups and Youth Groups
Get them raving! Get them gushing! Get them sharing their photos with all their friends about the fun, yet meaningful time they spent together!
As we weave the strands into majestic braids we are connecting to our shared history – and to one another.
Give your group this experience, here in Jerusalem!
Highlight of my trip was your challah class!
“I attended the JWRP trip from June 29-July 7 this summer. It was an amazing experience and among many of the highlights was Tamar Ansh’s challah class.
Many of us have never done it before but have now embarked on making challah for the first time, myself included!
Nancy Schwartz
Sudbury, MA
Your JCE Challah Lunch ‘n Learn
This one’s a real favorite for tour groups! Make traditionally shaped challahs. Learn history of challah and the mitzvah while it rises and bakes. Eat with a choice of soup – winter months or with a choice of Israeli dips and fresh salad.
The From Dough to Loaves: Make it, Bake it & Take it!
Learn dough from sifting all the way through the finished product. Applicable to private clients or groups up to 20 participants. 3 hours in length. Go home with your challahs or choose to have them sent to an address within Jerusalem.
The Let’s Get to It! Challah Experience
Learn dough from sifting all the way through the finished product. Applicable to private clients or groups up to 20 participants. 3 hours in length. Go home with your challahs or choose to have them sent to an address within Jerusalem.
Seminaries
“Challah-it” with your whole school!
It’s getting them excited!
“You’re doing a great chessed, getting women excited about this very important mitzvah!
Doing mitzvahs with simcha will help us keep our children connected to Yiddishkeit in this turbulent day and age.”
Libby Unger
Zichron Yaakov, Israel
The Challah Intro
Includes the background history, all the laws of the mitzvah, tons of inspiration, tons of tips and all shapes. Group participants shape challah each time. Each session has time for learning and time for shaping for all participant’s. Take your shaped challahs home after each session.
3 part course, 1.5 hours each session.
Make It, Shape It, Shabbos It
2-2.5 hours group fun with the whole seminary. 10-100 participants.
Tamar comes in and teaches the mitzvah, demo with her own dough. The girls make dough with ingredients provided by the school. We do hafrashas challah together, they shape and keep it for their in-Shabbaton at the school.
Women's Learning Groups
Getting deeper into your dough!
Great for the serious bakers out there, tzeddakah events, n’shei / community groups, shul groups As seen in...
- Ramat Beit Shemesh
- Arsuf
- Bnei Brak
- Jerusalem
- Efrat
- Bet Shemesh
- And more...
My sincere appreciation
“This is such a lovely thing that you’re doing, Tamar – ממש מזכה את הרבים! I’m not terribly surprised, you do that quite frequently. And it’s an opportunity for me to express my sincere appreciation as one of the “רבים” who benefit from your creative initiatives- Yasher Kochaich.”
Miriam
Jerusalem
Challah Prayer Group
This one’s a real favorite for tour groups! Make traditionally shaped challahs. Learn history of challah and the mitzvah while it rises and bakes. Eat with a choice of soup – winter months or with a choice of Israeli dips and fresh salad.
Challah Dough Intensive
Learn dough from sifting all the way through the finished product. Applicable to private clients or groups up to 20 participants. 3 hours in length. Go home with your challahs or choose to have them sent to an address within Jerusalem.
Challah Mastery Workshop
Learn dough from sifting all the way through the finished product. Applicable to private clients or groups up to 20 participants. 3 hours in length. Go home with your challahs or choose to have them sent to an address within Jerusalem.
Shabbat Project Great Big Challah Bake
Specifically geared for very large crowds, Shabbat Project Challah Bakes (book early as there’s only one such date a year!), and those who want this a taste of the Jerusalem Experience brought to their community
Indescribably Inspiring
“Thank you for such an inspirational Challah Bake.
Your explanations on the ingredients and your guidance while we were all making the dough were amazing.
It was indescribably inspiring to attend this event with so many other women, all there for one purpose and all making challah together…
I enjoyed making the challahs, kneading them, performing hafrashas challah, plaiting, and ultimately, eating them. I really felt the mitzvah. Thank you!”
H. S.
ELC Shabbat Project Challah Bake
Overseas Challah Events
Past performances in...
- Passaic, NJ
- Teanech, NJ
- Brooklyn, NY
- Flatbush, NY
- Boro Park, NY
- Long Island, NY
- Catskills, NY
- Tuscon, AZ
- Cleveland, OH
- Golders Green, England
Visits to high schools and community shuls available upon request
We renewed our bond
“I just want to thank you for the wonderful challah evening.
I was there with my daughter, who had a difficult teenage-hood. Standing together, kneading our dough, saying our own personal tefillos, we experienced a bond that has been missing for so long. She couldn’t stop hugging me.
Additionally, I felt that my own bond with Yiddishkeit and Hashem was renewed.
I am so grateful to you for providing the environment for this to take place. Many thanks…”