What type of bread is served on Jewish holidays?
Raisin bread of the 19th century. In the 1920s, raisin bread was advertised as "The Bread Of Iron", due to the high iron content of the raisins. The bread became increasingly popular among English bakers in the 1960s. European versions of raisin bread include the Estonian "kringel" and the Slovakian "vianocka". A similar food is raisin challah, a traditional Jewish food for Shabbat and holidays. It has been suggested that Garibaldi biscuits were based on a raisin bread that was eaten by the troops of Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi. The United States Code of Federal Regulations specifies standards that raisin bread produced
Jewish holidays Jewish holidays Jewish holidays, also known as Jewish festivals or Yamim Tovim (, "Good Days", or singular Yom Tov, in transliterated Hebrew []), are holidays observed in Judaism and by Jews throughout the Hebrew calendar. They include religious, cultural and national elements, derived from three sources: Biblical "mitzvot" ("commandments"); rabbinic mandates; Jewish history and the history of the State of Israel. Jewish holidays occur on the same dates every year in the Hebrew calendar, but the dates vary in the Gregorian. This is because the Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar calendar ("i.e.", based on the cycles of both the sun