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Does your mothers’ family do the yekkishe minhag of throwing challah at the Shabbos table?
Personally, I just tack it on to the list of bizarre Chassidishe minhagim, with no mekor in Chazal, that I am at a loss to understand. Included in that is the concept of the men and women spending Rosh Hashonna separately (men at the Rebbe/Uman, women with their mother and sisters), the light off-hands discipline when it comes to kids making trouble, the nepotistic patriarchal leadership (as opposed to the Misnagdish meritocracy), women shaving their hair, men getting the “tennis ball” hair cut, etc.