Healing Challahs
We bake so no one heals alone.
Challah is the braided bread of Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest. We send complete baking kits to volunteers, who bake a fresh challah for someone in cancer treatment or recovery and deliver it nearby — so healing happens with a community around it, not alone.
Every challah is baked by hand, by someone who cares.
What's in a kit
Flour, sugar, yeast, oil, salt, parchment paper, a recipe card, a branded silicone egg-wash brush, a bag with a tie, two breast cancer pins, and a preprinted Mishebayrach (healing prayer) card for the baker to sign.
Why now
A diagnosis can be isolating, and treatment often means fewer visitors and fewer home-cooked meals. This project comes directly out of our founder's own treatment experience — she had baked challah for years, and was too unwell to during it. Baking again afterwards, for other people, is what started this.
Two ways to give
Individual baker → specific patient
A baker is matched with one person and bakes for them directly.
Community → community
A group holds regularly scheduled baking days for members of their own community.
Four ways to get involved
Request a challah
For yourself or someone you know, going through cancer treatment or recovery right now.
Learn more →Sponsor a kit
A kit costs about $36 to assemble and ship. [price to be confirmed before launch]