cRc Beth Din

Chicago Rabbinical Currents Volume 3

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


Students Visit cRc Beth Din

Rabbi Reiss met with Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel and his students from The Chabad Campus for Jewish Life and Living in Champaign, Illinois this past Sunday, April 19.


cRc Mechirat Chometz Video on YouTube 5786

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


Recording from the Pre-Pesach Webinar – March 2026

Please click HERE for the recording of the  cRc Kosher Consumer Pre-Pesach Webinar with Rabbi Reiss, Rabbi Fishbane, and Rabbi Cohen In Memory of Mrs. Biranit Cohen a”h


cRc Pesach Fair 5786 / 2026

Sunday, March 22  1-4 pm Kehilat Chovevei Tzion 9220 Crawford Avenue Skokie, IL Keilim Kashering, Shaatnez Testing, and Knife Sharpening Related: cRc Main Pesach page


Purim 5786

Divrei Torah – Purim 5786   Divrei Torah include: Rav Yona Reiss – Shoshanat Yaakov: A Rose by our Name Rabbi Noach Goldstein – Sirtut of Megillat Esther and the Underlying Meaning of Purim Rabbi Yochanan Posner- The Mound, the Ditch, and a Partial Explanation of the Mystery of Antisemitism    


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


The cRc announces the Rebbetzin Shoshana Schwartz, a”h, Torah Research Project 5786.

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 CTeen Chabad of Wilmette

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


Rabbi Reiss and Rabbi Hertz at the Community Menorah Lighting

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