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PHOTO ESSAY: Visit to the Matzah Bakery
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By Judah S. Harris
 The hand matzah you'll eat the nights of the seder could have come from any one of a number of bakeries, but if it came from the Charedim Matzah Bakery in Boro Park, then take a look at the exact story of its creation.
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Teaching the Value of Freedom at the Seder
By Rabbi Reuven Spolter.

Retelling the story of redemption to our children isn't about reading the text of the Hagaddah. It's about personalizing the story so that our children can appreciate both the meaning of suffering and the value of redemption.
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Pesach on the Base
By Bayla Sheva Brenner.

One week after US forces toppled Saddam Hussein’s tyrannical regime in April 2003, Jews everywhere gathered around their Seder tables to celebrate Pesach.
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Parsha Columns

Rabbi Weinreb’s Torah Column, Parshas Vayikra
We live in a world of cell phones and e-mails, blogs, Facebook and Twitter. We have no privacy, for almost anyone can reach us wherever we are, whatever we happen to be doing, at all times of the day.
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Vayikra: Holiness – Jewish Style!
By Rabbi Asher Brander
No book of the Torah requires greater effort to discover nuggets of contemporary relevance than Vayikra. And no book yields greater gold. Let the mining begin! Two paradigm sacrifices, Olah and Shelamim highlight our parsha. They differ fundamentally...
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Food Columns

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Passover Dessert Recipes
By Emuna Braverman and Manhattan Day School
Here is a collection of easy and delicious kosher-for-Passover dessert recipes.
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Recipes with Barley
By Eileen Goltz
Barley is kind of a super fiber-filled food, and who can’t use more fiber in their diet these days?
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OU Press has published another exceptional new book.
 The Royal Table: A Passover Haggadah by Rabbi Norman Lamm is a work of brilliant insights expressed in Rabbi Lamm’s inimitable style, articulate and engaging, while sensitive and moving. For this commentary, Rabbi Lamm’s weekly sermons and divrei Torah delivered while he was Rabbi of The Jewish Center have been culled for his insights on the Haggadah and the Passover holiday. Together with relevant selections from his written works, they make up this new and compelling commentary on the Haggadah. We now have the opportunity on Passover evening to join Rabbi Lamm at his Royal Table and retell the story of the Exodus with new understanding.


The Na’aleh High School Program
The Na’aleh High School Program is a fully subsidized program for students who demonstrate academic excellence. Two of the four participating Israeli schools are specifically created to meet the academic and hashkafic needs of young people from religious communities. Click HERE for more information.

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The Coming Week's Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew version of the Steinsaltz Edition of the Talmud.
Masechet Sanhedrin - 35a-41b

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March 21, 2010
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From Break Up To Break Through
March 23, 2010
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Tuesday, 8 Nisan - March 23
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Is Time Always the Same? Does it depend upon the clock? Join us for a visit to the Clock Museum (did you know there is one?) and learn all about the extraordinary exquisite exceptional clocks which were stolen over 20 years ago from this museum. They were recently found and retrieved and are now on display. We shall see the clocks on a guided tour and hear all about the exciting story.
We shall listen to a lecture on Islam by our own popular Nachman Kupietzky and then tour the rest of the Museum
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Parshat Vayikra
 5 Nisan 5770
March 19-20, 2010

Haftarah:
Yeshayahu 43:21-44:23

Candlelighting Times and Zmanim
Important Changes to Zmanim Calculations
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