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Annual cRc Membership Melaveh Malkah Honoring Rabbi Michael Myers

Thank you to those who attended the Annual Membership Melaveh Malkah Honoring Rabbi Michael Myers this past Motzaei Shabbos at KCT. Congratulations to our President, Rabbi Joel Gutstein, and the Board on being re-elected! Below is the video watch the video honoring Rabbi Myers.


cRc Letter of Appreciation Sent to the CPD.


cRc Divrei Torah – Chanukah 5786

  cRc Divrei Torah – Chanukah 5786 Contents: There is No Other Choice – Rav Yona Reiss The Spiritual DNA of the Jewish People – Rabbi Michael Myers Chanukah: A Clarion Call for Clarity– Rabbi Chaim Pollock Money May Talk, but Listen to the Chanukah Gelt – Rabbi Yochanan Posner


Eating in the Rain – Guidelines for Contending with Rainfall on the First and Second Nights of Sukkos 5786

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…


Hatzlacha to Rabbi Yochanan Nathan

The cRc held a get together thanking  Rabbi Yochanan Nathan for 4 decades of serving as our sofer. We wish him continued hatzlacha as he makes aliyah.


Chadashot – The Year in Review – 5786/2025

Chadashot 5786


Who is Obligated to Serve – Annual Harry Reiss Z”L Shiur.

ANNUAL YAHRZEIT SHIUR לע”נ ר’ צבי בן אפרים הכהן ז”ל Mr. Harry Reiss Z”L Who is Obligated to Serve in the Army of Israel? By Rabbi Yona Reiss שליט”א Sunday, July 27th ‘25     ה”מנחם אב תשפ”ב 9:30 AM (Chicago – CDT)   5:30 PM (Israel – IDT) LIVE at Cong. Kehilat Chovevei Tzion 9220 Crawford Avenue,…


Congratulations to the Winners of The Rebbetzin Shoshana Schwartz, ע״ה, cRc Torah Research Project – 5785

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…


Divrei Torah for Shavuos 5785

cRc Shavuos Divrei Torah 5785

Articles include:

When did Rus Covert? – by Rabbi Yona Reiss
Standing for Torah Teachers – by Rabbi Shalom Baum
Shavuot: The Forgotten Holiday 5785 – By Rabbi Louis Lazovsky
Shavuos: The Happiest Yom Tov? – By Rabbi Meir S. Moscowitz