3rd annual Challah Bake set for Nov. 10

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The Third Annual Great Challah Bake has been announced for Thursday, Nov. 10 at 6:45 p.m. at the Sands Atlantic Beach. 
The theme of this year’s bake is “keeping it together.”
Participants will learn how to prepare and braid two challahs, as well as the historical significance of this delicious bread, for an all-inclusive ticket price of $36 — includes baking supplies, instructions, musical entertainment, an apron, raffle prizes, and a recipe book.
MC Jackie Bitton will lead the event, and Slovie Wolff will express thoughts in honor of her recently departed mother — Rebbitzen Esther Jungreis.
“Shabbat enables us set aside the distractions, demands and pressures of daily life — offering us the time and space to renew our inner selves and to reinvigorate our most important relationships,” Chief Rabbi of South Africa and founder of the Shabbat Project Warren Goldstein said.
Last year’s bake attracted a group of local Jewish women which included businesswomen, mothers of school children, daughters of Holocaust survivors, women with little or no knowledge of Jewish ritual tradition, and ladies who bake their own challah regularly.
Many also brought their daughters, sister, mothers, aunts, nieces and cousins with them. 
According to a press release from representatives holding the event, over a thousand Nassau County women are expected to partake in the celebration, in preparation for a Jewish day of rest that a million Jews worldwide expect to celebrate together.
Thursday night’s Challah Bake is a precursor to a larger, international event on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 11 and 12, titled “Shabbat Project,” which is a coordinated event taking place at the same time in 500 cities around the world that all Jews can be part of. 
Guidelines on how to observe the Sabbath will be given out at the Challah Bake.
Participants of the Challah Bake may sign up for the opportunity to spend the Jewish Sabbath, Friday at sundown through Saturday at sundown, with a local family, to experience the a authentic, traditional Sabbath.
Those who wish to volunteer at the event, or host people to experience Shabbat at your home, can email thegreatchallahbakelistyle@gmail.com.

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