Growing up, there was nothing like waking up on Shabbat morning to the unmistakable smell of cholent cooking in my mother’s extra-large stock pot. Held down by a massive weight (which my mother used ...

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The first time I came face to face — or rather, spoon to mouth — with a bowl of cholent, at the age of 24, I had no idea what it was. While I was growing up in a nonobservant home, my family had no ...

JERUSALEM — When the Tel Aviv light rail opened in the summer of 2023, it shaved travel time from the city’s southern neighborhoods to the haredi Orthodox city of Bnei Brak to just 20 minutes. For ...

Rabbi Yitzchok Zilberstein, a senior legal scholar from Bnei Brak, published a halachic ruling against the widespread practice among yeshiva students to eat cholent on Thursday nights (known ...

My resolution for the New Year is to make more cholent. Cholent is the traditional Sabbath stew, assembled and put in the oven (or on the stove, or in a crock pot) on Friday before the Sabbath, then ...

This chilly winter, many of us have warmed ourselves — and our kitchens — with long-cooked meals. Roasts, beans, and stews have been in heavy rotation. But there's a dish called cholent that isn't ...

I am writing this from the land of Israel, the Holy Land, the land of milk and honey, not from home; I came here on an “Aish Destiny Mission,” with 50 women who not only took a week off to study, ...