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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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  • 15 Historical Events That Happened on Yom KippurQuite a number of things happened on Yom Kippur. Read More
  • Yom Kippur Explainer: Day of AtonementOnce a year, Jews stop everything: no eating, no drinking, no work and no worldly distractions. The... Read More
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Daily Thought
People know Yom Kippur as a day of repentance and forgiveness. But Yom Kippur takes you far beyond that. Because repentance means regretting who you’ve become. Yom Kippur is a day when you are embraced for who you truly are. You are a pure, divine soul. Today, in that embrace, you experience the bond that divine soul has with G-d, and you want to live that way. So you rid yourself of some unbecoming things you picked up on the road, and you return home, picking up some beautiful mitzvahs...