Re: Student bakers (Dec. 11)

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I enjoyed the article titled “Student bakers fight hunger with challah” very much. I’d like to add some background to the article. My daughter Danielle Waldman and her close friend Harrison Paup actually started the Brown Chapter in the fall of 2013. Danielle was looking for a way to combine her strong desire to perform tzedakah and tikkun olam as well her interest in business. Danielle was also a member and vice president of Brown’s Women in Business.

The challah club was a hit from the beginning and did welcome everyone to join and participate, and the club became a great way for the students to meet new friends, learn how to run a business and to give back to the community. What is not known is that Danielle had to go back to the administration twice before her request to start the club was approved.

I sell commercial real estate in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and I would make my R.I. appointments on Thursday or Friday so I could stop by and buy a challah. The club would bake the challah on Thursday and sell it on Friday before Shabbat. I live in Westwood, Massachusetts, so after buying the challah I would drive home on Route 95 and stop at the Dunkin Donuts at exit 30 to buy a coffee. I use to start sampling the challah on the ride home and the challah never made it home, much to my wife’s chagrin.

I would like to commend the students at Brown for continuing such a new and wonderful tradition and for giving back to the community.

Dan Waldman

Westwood, Mass.