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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.

I know that it is not easy to make a real water challah, and I would appreciate any tips on how to make it taste good.

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Paying Babysitters on Time - Jewish Law

Rabbi Yosef Fleischman

Question: I hired a babysitter to watch my children. Must I pay the babysitter as soon as I return? Does it make a difference if the babysitter asks for the money or not and if she is a child or an adult?

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WaterWorks

Renee Chernin

What do you think is the most important cooking ingredient? (and you will rarely see it in the ingredient list of any recipe)

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My 35th Wedding Anniversary

Susan Schwartz

My husband is upstairs in bed, sleeping the deep sleep of a body stricken with the flu. Downstairs, my daughter’s newborn son is sleeping peacefully...

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Tel Aviv Centennial Slideshow

Rebecca Kowalsky and Toby Klein Greenwald

Whenever I’ve completed work on a particularly exhausting project and feel the need to “get away from it all," my husband and I do the next best thing to hopping a plane to somewhere abroad. We drive from Efrat to the Beit Shemesh train station, and hop a train to Tel Aviv.

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