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 ...

Cholent, (pronounced chow·luhnt), a traditional Jewish stew, is a slow-cooked masterpiece brimming with rich flavors and melt ...

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 ...

Three generations of Soclofs are standing in Grandma D’s kitchen doing what many women in Northwest Baltimore do on a Friday. The beans and barley are doled out, the beef stripped clean of fat, the ...

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 ...

I spent most of freshman year at Harvard threatening to transfer. I quickly realized college wasn’t going to be a delightful blur of Solo cups, but rather, a lot of solitary lunches. I was tired of ...

Note: The slow-cooking Sabbath stew cholent reminded a few tasters in The Times Test Kitchen of the French bean-and-meat stew cassoulet. One difference: This stew calls for barley, which adds a nice ...

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 ...

Illustrative. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men eat cholent in Jerusalem, December 24, 2015 (Nati Shohat/Flash90) The predominantly ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak is taking creative measures to encourage ...

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Snaxit, a kosher convenience store located on New Jersey Route 4, gets especially busy whenever there’s “a simcha in the city or upstate,” according to the store’s manager. At first glance, the first ...