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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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Adult Education
Youth Programs
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Learning & Inspiration
  • The Forgotten Pioneer of Chabad Women’s ActivismEidel Pappenheim-Dubin's tragically cut-short life of learning and leadership in Vienna, Krakow, and... Read More
  • The Previous Rebbe’s Dangerous Speech in Moscow, 1927He spoke about the imperative to provide Jewish children with an authentic Torah education, even und... Read More
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Shabbat & Holidays
Candle Lighting Times
Oak Park, IL 60302
Light Candles at
8:11 PM  -  Friday, June 26
Shabbat Ends
9:22 PM  -  Shabbat, June 27
Weekly Torah Portion
Chukat-Balak
Upcoming Holiday
The Three Weeks
Jul. 2 - Jul. 23
Daily Thought
Learning Torah
We don’t learn Torah to gain knowledge—not even divine knowledge. At the time you are learning Torah, your mind itself is divine. Your mind wraps itself in divine modalities. Your soul twirls and rises in a divine dance. As you wrestle with divine words, pathways and wisdom, you merge with them, so that your entire being becomes Torah. We learn Torah because it is a...