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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: The Jewish Day School Experience

Judah S. Harris

If you've ever attended a Jewish day school, sent your children to one, or worked in this environment, the scenes will be familiar. Through compelling photography, viewers will often feel as if they're right there in the classroom.

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Writing the Story

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Moses is described as the “safra rabah, the great scribe of Israel." Moses was surely a scribe in the technical sense.

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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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Matzah and Maror

Rabbi Norman Lamm

The festival of Passover is the celebration of our freedom. Passover not only commemorates an act of liberation in the dim past, but reminds us that the aspiration to and striving for freedom are unending tasks.

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