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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
  • 10 Biblical Heroes with Traumatic ChildhoodsMany of the Bible’s most famous personalities had difficult childhoods, marked by sibling rivalry, a... Read More
  • What Does Judaism Tell Us About Abimelech, King of the Philistines?Abimelech’s treaties with the Patriarchs continued to have aftereffects centuries later. Who was thi... Read More
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Shabbat & Holidays
Candle Lighting Times
Oak Park, IL 60302
Light Candles at
5:28 PM  -  Friday, October 30
Shabbat Ends
6:29 PM  -  Shabbat, October 31
Weekly Torah Portion
Vayeira
Upcoming Holiday
Chanukah
Dec. 4 - Dec. 12
Daily Thought
Grasping Truth
Blind faith cannot grasp Truth, because it does not grasp anything at all. Intellect cannot grasp Truth, because intellect is finite and Truth is infinite. Only the eye of the soul, its inner wisdom, can grasp Truth and know...