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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…

cRc Chanukah Divrei Torah 5784 Articles include: Lighting the Fire  – Rabbi Yona Reiss Pirsumei Nisa  – Rabbi Micah Greenland Chanukah and Jewish Survival  – Rabbi Netanel Isaacs Ner Chanukah and Shalom  – Rabbi Chaim Twerski  

Rabbi Abramson Chizuk Mission in Israel – Day 1 Even before take-off the trip was filled with chizUk and unity. After davening maariv at Logan Airport with about 20 men a secular Israeli woman approached me and requested a prayer for her brother who is on the front lines. Instead of saying just one prayer I…

  Listen to Rav Yona Reiss’s shiur here:

Divrei Chizuk – Mar Cheshvan 5784

  Rabbi Reiss spoke to students at Sinai Scholars of Chabad of Northwestern University.

     Rabbi Reiss and Rabbi Moscowitz spoke to the 5th Grade boys from Cheder Lubavitch.    

Rabbi Kraft and Rabbi Moscowitz spoke with students from HF Hebrew Academy from Missouri.

The cRc wishes Mazal Tov to this year’s winners of the Rebbetzin Shoshana Schwartz, a”h, Torah Essay Contest: Winner:  Liba Posner (Lubavitch Girls High School) with her essay entitled “A Single, Perfect Whole”. (Read The Essay) Runners up: Nechama Levi (Bais Yaakov High School of Chicago) Avi London (Fasman Yeshiva High School) Chaya Mushka Wolf…

Dear Seniors, Each year, the Chicago Rabbinical Council proudly sponsors the Rebbetzin Shoshana Schwartz Torah Essay Contest. The contest is open to all seniors studying in Orthodox Jewish high schools in the Chicago metropolitan area who will attend a yeshiva or seminary in Israel for the 5784/2023-2024 academic year. Our objective is to promote serious…