cRc Rabbis at the RCA Convention A number of cRc Rabbis participated in the RCA Convention on May 11 and 12 in Suffern, NY. Participating Rabbis included Rabbi Reiss, Rabbi Abramson, Rabbi Engel, Rabbi Gelman, Rabbi Greenland, Rabbi Kraft, Rabbi Matanky, Rabbi Meyers, and Rabbi Mostofsky. Click HERE to watch Rabbi Reiss’ speech with…
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
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 Shavuos Divrei Torah 5786
Articles include:
– The Mitzva of Loving a Ger – by Rabbi Yona Reiss
– When Salvation Is Not Yet Success – A Shavuos Reflection on Hallel – by Rabbi Dovid Flinkenstein
– Get Your Head Out of the Clouds: Receiving Torah in the Digital Age – by Rabbi Shaanan Gelman
– COUNTerintuitive – by Rabbi Joel Gutstein
Please click HERE for the video. Mechirat Chometz – R. Yona Reiss, Av Beth Din of the cRc, at Cong. KINS (April 1. 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
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
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
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
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