Bakery

Sweetening the new year: How Jewish food becomes family tradition - opinion

Jewish food is more than what Jews eat. It is what becomes woven into family life, memory, tradition, and the freedom to change what came before.

|ByBARBARA SOFER
EMMER & CANE baked goods. Yum!
Lasange

Biga: Something for everyone - restaurant review

A review of Biga highlights its European cafe ambitions, mall-based expansion, and mix of pastries, pasta, and upgraded dairy dishes.

|ByDAVID BRINN
Babka & Krantz, a Berlin Jewish bakery, closed citing harassment as well as economic pressure, as seen in June 2026.

Celebrated Berlin Jewish bakery closes, citing harassment since October 7

Babka & Krantz opened in 2022 and added a second location in December 2024, adjacent to the memorial at the site where the Nazis devised their “final solution” for the Jews during the Holocaust.

|ByTOBY AXELROD/JTA
Mattarello’s famous scrambled egg croissant.

Everyone is standing in line: Israel’s most talked-about pastry awaits you in Binyamina

After closing in the north and a stint in Europe: Mattarello is back in Israel. We checked whether it lives up to the hype that has surrounded it for almost two months.

|ByBATYA GILADI

Cockroaches find home among bourekas at Jerusalem bakery

A local bakery refused to throw out bourekas after a customer spotted cockroaches in the food.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018ByYVETTE J. DEANE
Freshly-made potato bourekas on sale at a stall in Mahane Yehuda Market, Jerusalem.

Baking Class: The bread winners

Saidel’s Bakery is an authentic, healthy, Jewish bakery that makes loaves the old-fashioned way.

MAY 19, 2013ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Saidel’s Bakery