Category: Community

Click HERE to read the online article about the community Menorah lighting.

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…

Shabbat Shuva Drasha Parshas Vayeilech; September 27 HaRav Yona Reiss KINS Main; 5 pm Rabbi Aaron Leibtag KINS North Shabbat morning following Musaf

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…

cRc Pesach Divrei Torah 5785 Articles include: The Minhag of “Not Mishing”  Not Eating Out on Pesach – By Rav Yona Reiss Karpas as the Conduit for Connection – Rabbi Yechiel Bresler The Symbolism of the Egg – By Rabbi Daniel Fox The Hardest Words to Say:  “I Was Wrong” – By Rabbi Akiva Males…

Divrei Torah – Purim 5785   Divrei Torah include: Rav Yona Reiss – Purim Meshulash Rabbi Dovid D. Flinkenstein – When Shushan Surpassed Sinai Rabbi Elisha M. Prero – Simcha on Purim    

For Chicago Rabbinical Currents Volume 1, click->Here<-  Volume 2 | Issue 7  Kislev 5786 Equity, Fairness, and Mishpat – By Rabbi Aaron Kraft  Civet Cat Coffee – Kosher or Not? – By Rabbi Elozor Willner    Volume 2 | Issue 6  Tishrei 5786 Honey and Other Animal Products – By Rabbi Dovid Cohen * Note: Issue 6…

For more than two decades, the Chicago Rabbinical Council has sponsored an annual essay contest open to seniors in local high schools and yeshivot who plan to continue their Torah studies during the following year in Israel. For many years the contest was sponsored through the generosity of our Chaver Rabbi Harold Karp, z”l. In…