Author: Benjamin Hurwitz

The cRc wishes Mazal Tov to this year’s winners of the Rebbetzin Shoshana Schwartz, a”h, Torah Essay Contest: Winner:  Liba Posner (Lubavitch Girls High School) with her essay entitled “A Single, Perfect Whole”. (Read The Essay) Runners up: Nechama Levi (Bais Yaakov High School of Chicago) Avi London (Fasman Yeshiva High School) Chaya Mushka Wolf…

                Shavuos Divrei Torah 5783

   Download as a PDF Examining the Arbitration Agreement Known as the “Halachic Prenup” Elka Blonder  Since the 1990s, a document known as the “Halachic Prenup” has been endorsed by many prestigious rabbis of the Jewish world.[1] While the Halachic Prenup was primarily initiated by rabbis associated with Yeshiva University, an institution at the center…

Dear Seniors, Each year, the Chicago Rabbinical Council proudly sponsors the Rebbetzin Shoshana Schwartz Torah Essay Contest. The contest is open to all seniors studying in Orthodox Jewish high schools in the Chicago metropolitan area who will attend a yeshiva or seminary in Israel for the 5784/2023-2024 academic year. Our objective is to promote serious…

cRc Pesach Divrei Torah 5783                   This cRc publication contains Divrei Torah from: – Harav Yona Reiss: Short Haggadah Insights. – Rabbi Eitan M. Allen: The One Not at the Seder. – Rabbi Menachem Linzer: The Deeper Meaning Behind Heseiba at the Seder – Rabbi Yehuda Meyers:…

cRc Purim Divrei Torah 5783                   This cRc publication contains Divrei Torah from: Harav Yona Reiss: Don’t Give Up Hope. Rabbi Yosef Posner: Feel Free to Act Free Freely.  

For Parshat Mishpatim, Rabbi Reiss and Rabbi Kraft spoke at YU Torah MiTzion Parsha and Pizza Groups at the JCC and at Or Torah. The Dayanim shared with the students how the Mitzvot in the Parsha are applied in Beth Din.

Listen to Drinking on Purim Shiur by Rabbi Yona Reiss on YUTorah.org Here.   Marei Mekomos: שכרות בפוריםבפורים – Rabbi Reiss (cRc Membership Shiur) 2.20.23    

We thank the Rabbis who served on the board for the past 3 years and welcome the new board members. Mazal Tov to our new board: Thank you to those who attended the Melava Malka this past Motzaei Shabbos. We thank the Rabbis who served on the board for the past 3 years and welcome…

Divrei-Torah-Chanukah-5783                 This cRc publication contains Divrei Torah from: Harav Yona Reiss: My Chanukah Rabbi Elisha Prero: The Chanukah Miracle: Is it the Oil, the Victory or Both?