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About Chabad
Chabad Jewish Center of Oak Park-River Forest offers a wide range of Jewish classes, programs and services. Creating a home for Jewish Life in the Oak Park River Forest area
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Learning & Inspiration
  • Why Are Weddings So Happy?The Rebbe shared with a bride and groom the kabbalistic reason why weddings are joyous occasions. Read More
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Daily Thought
Tolerance doesn’t care. Tolerance just looks the other way and goes about its own business. Tolerance is Indifferent. Caring is blind—the kind of caring that cares for everybody, no matter who they are, but doesn’t allow them to step outside the path your caring believes to be good for them. Caring can suffocate. And then there is deep love. Deep love recognizes another person’s right to grow, their need to travel along a path and get there on their own—and yet has the compassion to be there for them when they are lost. Deep...