Category: Community

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

This project is open to all current senior students of participating schools who plan on Torah study in Eretz Yisrael for the 5787 – 2026-27 school year. Submission deadline: Friday, Iyar 28 – Yom Yerushalayim; May 15. See this link for details: https://crcbethdin.org/2dwg For more information: please call 773.250.5499 or email [email protected].

Rabbi Reiss met with students from the CTeen Chabad of Wilmette and their leader Rabbi Moshe Teldon

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…