KosherToday.com & COLlive.com
Joseph Folger, an owner of the iconic Beigel’s Bakery brand which sells baked kosher products around the United States, passed away.
He was 70.
Folger, a frum Jewish resident of Boro Park, was one of the owners of Beigel’s and was a fixture at the annual Kosherfest food expo. With his charm and grace, he displayed Beigel’s line of breads, challah and pastries.
In 1934, the Beigel family opened its small bakeshop called Beigel’s Bakery in Krakow, Poland. When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, at great personal risk and without taking payment, the Beigels used their fresh bread to feed hunger-starved Jews.
Folger helped expand Beigel’s Bakery from a small bakeshop on the Lower East Side to an ever-expanding brand that is now sold in most kosher grocery stores, Costco, Sam’s Club, Kroger’s, many airlines, many healthcare facilities, and many schools.
Beigel’s is now based now in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, after successively growing out of previous locations in Clinton Hill, Williamsburg, and the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Their products have kosher certifications from OK Kosher, CHK – Badatz of Crown Heights, CRC, and Hisachdus HaRabbonim DeArtzos HaBris VeCanada.
Beigel’s produces hundreds of baked goods daily, from its signature challah bread to Black and White Cookies, Rugelach, cakes, pies and countless pastries; however, the family-run company is still baking with the quality and care that’s found in a mom-and-pop operation.
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