How do you make a Challah Prince? Start with an Israeli born in Tel Aviv named Idan Chabasov, 35. Place him in Berlin with water, flour, yeast, sugar, and egg yolks. Mix with experience as a social ...

I thought I knew how to bake challah. Then I saw the section devoted to the Jewish egg bread in the newly revised “Secrets of a Jewish Baker” by George Greenstein (Ten Speed Press, 328 pp., $29.95).

Bread — shaping it, baking it, blessing it and sharing it — is part of almost every Jewish holiday. The bond among Jews, God and bread goes back to the first five books of the Bible: As the Israelites ...