Category: Beth Din

Below are links to 3 shiurim Rabbi Reiss gave in Eretz Yisroel:

Click HERE for the video recording of the shiur in the Halichot Am Yisroel Conference.
Click HERE for a recording of the shiur Science and Technology in Recent Beth Din Case Studies given in Beit Midrash Torani Leumi in Beit Shemesh.
Click HERE for a recording of a shiur Rabbi Reiss gave in Yeshivat Kerem B’yavneh on Peshara in Beis Din Nowadays.

Mazal Tov to this year’s winners of the cRc Rebbetzin Shoshana Schwartz, a”h, Torah Research Project:
First Place Winners: Eliezer Herman (Fasman Yeshiva High School) for his essay “DNA as Halachic Evidence” and  Akiva Isenberg (Fasman Yeshiva High School) for “Redeeming Hostages.”

For Chicago Rabbinical Currents Volume 1, click->Here<- For Chicago Rabbinical Currents Volume 2, click->Here<- Volume 3 | Issue 1  Iyar 5786 Tattoos – In Conversion and Other Areas in Halacha – By Rav Yona Reiss Visiting Asia and Keeping the Global Village Kosher – By Rabbi Shmuel Katz

Please click HERE for the video. Mechirat Chometz – R. Yona Reiss, Av Beth Din of the cRc, at Cong. KINS (April 1. 2026)  

Inside the Beth Din Congregation K.I.N.S. at 8 pm Tuesday, February 17, Senior Dayan, Rabbi Raccah – Geirut: Conversion in Halacha

  cRc Divrei Torah – Chanukah 5786 Contents: There is No Other Choice – Rav Yona Reiss The Spiritual DNA of the Jewish People – Rabbi Michael Myers Chanukah: A Clarion Call for Clarity– Rabbi Chaim Pollock Money May Talk, but Listen to the Chanukah Gelt – Rabbi Yochanan Posner

By Rav Yona Reiss, Av Beis Din, cRc Generally, there is no obligation to eat in the Sukkah when it rains to the degree that the soup would get ruined. This is based on the exemption of “mitztaer” – that a person who is significantly uncomfortable need not eat in the Sukkah. The Torah says…