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Friday nights at the Auberge Shalom pour femmes shelter, there is a braided challah on the dinner table — a soft bread brushed with an egg wash to make it glossy and sprinkled with sesame seeds. The challah is part of the meal at which the Jewish Sabbath, Shabbat,