How to Make Challah

In her moving short documentary, Sarah Rosen intercuts video taken in 1975 of her aunt Jane’s 97-year-old immigrant grandmother baking challah in her Upper West Side kitchen with newly filmed footage of Jane, now 80, attempting to bake her own challah for the first time. From this simple premise, Rosen expresses the complex ways that history, knowledge, and family legacies are passed down through the generations, from one woman to another. (New York Jewish Film Festival)