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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Growing up, one of the most egregious kitchen crimes my mother ever committed was cooking hot dogs and chopping them up into our Shabbat cholent. Upon finding a hotdog in our cholent, we would ...

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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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 ...

Rabbis in Beit Shemesh have issued a joint letter imposing new restrictions on the operating hours of food establishments in the city, claiming that some of these venues have become nighttime hangouts ...

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 ...