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.” Second Place Winner: Matanya Goldstein (Fasman Yeshiva High School) for his essay “Intellectual…
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
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 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…
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.
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.