‘Tiferet’s father, aunt, uncle, grandparents and great-grandmother are Canadians. Doesn’t that count?’
TEL AVIV — It’s Saturday night, but instead of baking Tiferet Lapidot a cake for her going-away birthday party, her friends were baking challah bread, weaving it with prayers — as a Jewish act of resistance and faith. Hundreds of women from all over Israel blessed the dough, sending videos online for the return of their friend, a hostage taken to the Gaza Strip by members of Hamas.
