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Yom Kippur break-fast
After the Day of Atonement fast, many Ashkenazi families break the fast with bagels, cream cheese, lox and noodle kugel.
Cheeses for Yom Kippur break-fast
Yom Kippur is a full day of fasting and prayer. When it ends at nightfall, families and friends gather for a break-fast, and in North America the meal has settled into a dairy spread: bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon, noodle kugel baked with cottage cheese and sour cream, blintzes and fruit. A dairy meal is light, can be laid out before the fast begins, and needs no last-minute cooking. Sephardi families often break the fast differently, with sweet drinks, cakes and soups, so the bagel table is a custom of Ashkenazi America rather than a rule.
The cheeses
Also part of it, and being written: Farmer cheese (Fills the blintzes on the dairy table.).
Written by the EveryCheese desk with AI assistance. Background: "Break fast" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Cottage cheese: F ASTILY (T ALK ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cream cheese: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0, source