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 ...

As we begin the chilly month of November, there’s nothing like a hearty bowl of cholent to warm your tummy! Cholent, also called chulent, is a Jewish stew that simmers overnight — ideally, in a slow ...

Many of us will eat cholent over the coming winter weekend. Dr. Maya Rosman surprises and reveals that this stew is actually healthy for you. And also – how do you prevent the fatigue afterward? This ...

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 ...

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Cholent, the Ashkenazi slow-baked stew of meat, beans and potatoes that is simmered overnight for stress-free Sabbath dining, is really supposed to be eaten on Saturday. But this was Sunday morning, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yaakov Schwartz is The Times of Israel's deputy Jewish World editor BUDAPEST — The competition for best cholent in Budapest is fierce. Seemingly the stuff of synagogues, here the savory Sabbath stew ...