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Citywide NYC: Global ChallahFest Brings Bakery Tours and Friday-Night Dinners, Nov. 12–15
ChallahFest, billed as the first global challah festival, lands in New York Nov. 12–15 with bakery tours, a student baking showdown, VIP brunches and shared Friday-night dinners at locations across the city.
By NBT Editors · 2026-11-11
Global ChallahFest, a festival built around the braided bread at the center of Jewish tables, runs in New York from Nov. 12 to 15 at multiple locations across the city. It is organized by FOODISH, a global cultural platform that grew out of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv and works to strengthen Jewish identity and belonging through food.
The New York program is one stop in a larger tour. ChallahFest runs Nov. 6–29 across seven cities: Washington D.C., Chicago, New York, Boston, Atlanta, London and Tel Aviv. In New York, the lineup includes bakery tours, a student baking showdown, VIP brunches and shared Friday-night dinners.
The organizers describe challah as more than a Friday-night staple: a piece of living history. The festival approaches it through photography, design, live music, migration stories and rooftop gatherings, staged at bakeries, museums and campuses.
A centerpiece is HaMotzi, a photography exhibition by Sivan Roshianu and Alexander "Zoonder" Lachnish. Its macro images of crumb, crust and braid are printed large and hung at bakeries, museums and campuses in all seven festival cities.
FOODISH frames Jewish food as hybrid, evolving and global, and says every recipe and style is welcome. That open-door stance makes the festival an easy entry point for anyone curious about the bread, whatever their background.
Event listings for New York are on the festival's official NYC page. Questions can go to info@foodishglobal.org, and updates are posted on Instagram at @foodishanu.
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