Nobody questioned the minhag of schlissel challah as being connected to anything non-Jewish until very recently when some self-styled “historian” named Mr. Alfassa (who isn’t wearing a yarmulka in his publicity photo) suddenly introduced that nebulous claim. It was Mr. Alfassa’s tenuous and unsupported points that Hoffman easily debunked. Prior to Alfassa there was no such claim even. The internet bloggies known to attack anything too Jewish for their tastes’ hooked onto Alfassa to add to their collection of things to attack.
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