After 20 wonderful years, Temple Beth Or’s signature event—the Annual Jewish Food Festival & Treasure Market—is getting an exciting update! Since 2004, the Food Festival & Treasure Market has been a much-anticipated date on the Montgomery calendar, held every year on the last Sunday in February. We’ve welcomed the community into our temple to share delicious Jewish cuisine, friendship, and the fun of finding hidden gems at the Treasure Market.
This year, we’re turning the page to a new chapter: the Treasure Market will be replaced with a juried Art Fair. While we will always treasure the memories of vintage finds and unique goods, we are thrilled to showcase talented artists from across the region. Visitors can expect an inspiring range of work—painting, ceramics, jewelry, mixed media, photography, and more.
For months leading up to the big day Temple members roll up their sleeves to cook and bake together. It’s a beautiful tradition of teamwork and friendship, with one shared goal: providing the very best Jewish delicacies for the greater Montgomery community. Here are just a few of the items we make:
- 180 loaves of Challah - a traditional, braided bread
- 640 Challah rolls for our hot plates and veggie plates
- Over 5000 pieces of pastries and desserts for our bakery
- Over 330 pounds of slow-cooked, beef brisket
- More than a thousand hot, fresh, potato latkes
- Around 100 quarts of Matzah Ball soup and
- Almost 900 cabbage rolls - cabbage leaves stuffed with meat
Some of the other mouth-watering Jewish specialties you can purchase to eat in or take out include noodle kugel (noodle and egg casserole made with sugar and raisins) and Quajado (spinach, pasta, egg and cheese casserole). To taste the best of the best, choose from a hot plate consisting of beef brisket, kugel, green beans and Challah roll or a veggie plate with Quajado, kugel, a latke and Challah roll. If you’re not up for a full meal, choose from an all-beef hotdog or beef brisket sandwich-both served with chips. Want to have some for later? Visit our Frozen-to-Go section for kugel, Quajado, cabbage rolls, and Matzah Ball soup as well as frozen loaves of Challah and Carnegie Deli cheesecakes & cheesecake bites. This year we have two new cheesecake bite flavors - chocolate & raspberry. Are you hungry yet?
Don’t forget to visit our beautiful bakery for the many homemade pastries such as strudel, rugelach, mandel bread, curabies (traditional Sephardic sand tarts), Challah and, back by popular demand, praline Matzah.
Once you’ve filled up on all the wonderful foods and delicacies walk down the hall to visit the artists at our Art Fair and find your new treasures. So many things to choose from - paintings, hand-made jewelry, pottery, various kinds of art. All perfectly made and ready for purchase.
Once again, Food Festival visitors will be treated to the beautiful music from Dahlia Road. And you won't want to miss the Sanctuary tours and discussions led by Rabbi Looper.
See you there!
