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I would like to find a good recipe for a water challah without any fat, sugar, or eggs. Just water, flour, yeast, and salt.

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PHOTO ESSAY: Visit to the Matzah Bakery

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

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

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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Jewish Law: Selling Chametz

Rabbi Yosef Fleischman

The Torah forbids a Jew, during Pesach, not just from eating chametz but even from deriving benefit from his chametz. Furthermore, there is an additional prohibition of even owning chametz on Pesach.

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