The Mandell JCC’s PJ Library/Family Room in West Hartford hosted families with young children for a workshop in how to make a round challah for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Here, Noa and her dad Trevor make strips of dough that will be used to braid the challah. “Noa told us the entire ride home how much she loved making challah,” Alyssa, Noa’s mom reported in an email to the JCC’s Family Room director, Jane Pasternak . What did Noa have to say about the final product: “It actually tastes great!’. “Thanks for all that you do,” wrote Alyssa.