cRc Beth Din

This coming Tuesday Rabbi Raccah will speak in the Beth Din Mini-Series at KINS

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


Inside the Beth Din Mini-Series at KINS

Inside the Beth Din Congregation K.I.N.S. at 8 pm Tuesday, February 3, Av Beth Din, Rabbi Reiss – Dinei Torah and Compromise Tuesday, February 10, Dayan Kavua, Rabbi Kraft – Dinei Torah and Dinei Mamanot Tuesday, February 17, Senior Dayan, Rabbi Raccah – Geirut: Conversion in Halacha


cRc Divrei Torah – Chanukah 5786

  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


Eating in the Rain – Guidelines for Contending with Rainfall on the First and Second Nights of Sukkos 5786

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…


Thank you to Mrs. Center

The cRc Chevra Kadisha thanks Mrs. Ellen Center for 4 decades of dedicated service as a leading Metaheres, and wishes her Mazal Tov upon her retirement. A special event was organized by the Chevra for all the metaharos with Divrei Chizuk from Rabbi Raccah and an acknowledgement of Mrs. Center’s contributions to the Klal.


Hatzlacha to Rabbi Yochanan Nathan

The cRc held a get together thanking  Rabbi Yochanan Nathan for 4 decades of serving as our sofer. We wish him continued hatzlacha as he makes aliyah.


Chadashot – The Year in Review – 5786/2025

Chadashot 5786



Congratulations to the Winners of The Rebbetzin Shoshana Schwartz, ע״ה, cRc Torah Research Project – 5785

Mazal Tov to this year’s winners of the cRc Rebbetzin Shoshana Schwartz, a”h, Torah Research Project: First Place Winner: Mussi Hecht (Lubavitch Girls High School) for her essay “Halakhic Directives as Regards to Jewish Soldiers Fighting in War,” and Leah Gitty Rand (Bais Yaakov High School of Chicago) for “Redeeming Captives.” Second Place Winners: Nava Dreytser…


Rabbi Reiss’ visits to New York and Israel

At the recent RIETS Dinner     Click HERE to watch and listen to the recording of Rav Reiss’ shiur on International Law in Halacha האם יש מושג בהלכה של משפט בינלאומית בנוגע למלחמה בעזה? The following article was published this year from his talk at the conference last year on the topic of היתר עגונות בעקבות…