Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The Womens
Balcony pg. 19
President
Jeremy Goltz RABBI
Rabbi Shaanan Gelman
Immediate PAST President
Yitzie Sommer sephardic/assistant RABBI
Rabbi Natanel Isaacs
Treasurer
Chaim Lubin Youth Directors
Yehuda and Rebecca Bromberg
Secretary
Leesh Rosenblum Teen Minyan Director
Ami Atkin
Vice President, Fundraising
Matthew Koenig OFFICE Administrator
Maayan Shtal
Vice President, Ritual
Michael Felix Building Maintenance
Mila Vasilj
Vice President, House & Security
Art Fridberg
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Rabbis Greetings
O ne of the greatest challenges Orthodoxy faces
is to remain relevant and vibrant yet authentic and
loyal to our roots. How do we involve ourselves in
that which is ancient and not become antiquated?
The answer to striking this balance is found within a
familiar phrase from our tefilot , renew
our days as of old.
Our programming will revolve largely around this theme. KCT hopes to reignite that spark with Torah
study, with a goal of providing a variety of opportunities to allow 100% of our membership to be engaged
in some form of Torah study during the week, be it chavruta study or shiurim. We continue to expand
our tefila offerings with more minyanim and greater participation than ever before. You will find that our
social gatherings are geared towards a wider audience with more creative and fun-filled opportunities.
We will explore Jewish life, from practical kashrut, to the esoteric. This year we pay attention to truly
engaging those who have most recently become a part of our tzibur, while at the same time, helping
those of us who have been here for many years feel as excited and remain as engaged as ever.
I hope you will take advantage of our shuls vast and incredible
opportunities to engage in this spiritual renaissance together.
Sincerely,
Rabbi Shaanan Gelman
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The KCT Sephardic Minyan is a synagogue where Sephardim from various
ethnicities and backgrounds can come together to honor and observe their
traditions and customs with a traditional Sephardic minyan, while still being a
part of the larger Skokie Jewish community. Adam Soleymani
Sincerely,
Rabbi Netanel Isaacs
ABOUT RABBI Isaacs: Rabbi Isaacs, originally from Los Angeles, studied at Yeshiva Darchei Torah and
Yeshivas Mir in Yerushalayim. He continued his studies at the prestigious Jerusalem Kollel under the direction of
Rabbi Yitzhak Berkovits from whom he received Rabbinic ordination and extensive pastoral training. Sarah, no
stranger to the synagogue life, was raised in Atlanta, Georgia and is the daughter of Rabbi Shmuel Khoshkerman
of Congregation Ner Hamizrach.
Rabbi Isaacs will serve the halachic and pastoral needs of our growing Sephardic community as well as function
in the capacity of Assistant Rabbi for the congregation at large. Please join us in providing a warm welcome to
the Isaacs family as we im yirtzah Hashem usher in a period of spiritual growth and further development at KCT.
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Weekly Learning Schedule
Sunday
Daf Yomi: 7:45 AM Thursday
Lox N Learn: 9:15 AM Daf Yomi: 5:50 AM
Halacha Yomi: Between Mizrahi Grill Lunch + Learn:
Mincha/Maariv 12:00 PM (pg. 13)
Halacha Yomi:
Between Mincha/Maariv
Mishna to the Max: 7:30 PM
Womens Gemara: 8:00 PM
Monday Chassidus Chabura w/ Rabbi Gelman: 8:00 PM
Daf Yomi: 5:50 AM Beit Midrash: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
MetroKlub Lunch+Learn: 12:00 PM (pg. 13)
Halacha Yomi:
Between Mincha/Maariv
Mini-Series: 8:00 PM (pg. 10)
Friday
Daf Yomi: 6:00 AM
Shaila of the Week
Before Borchu
Tuesday
Beer Torah Oneg Shabbat (pg. 12)
Daf Yomi: 6:00 AM
Halacha Yomi:
Between Mincha/Maariv
NEW! Nefesh Hachaim w/
Rabbi Yaakov Klein: 8:00 PM
Shabbat
Daf Yomi: 8:15 AM
Rabbi Orens Parsha Shiur: 8:30 AM
1 hour before Mincha:
Wednesday Shabbat Afternoon Shiurim
Daf Yomi: 6:00 AM w/ Rabbi Kalman Worch
Journeys Through Jewish Philosphy @ Beit Midrash
Coffee Talk: 9:15 AM (pg. 14)
Gemara Chabura w/ Mr. Elisha Atkin
Halacha Yomi: Between Mincha/Maariv
30 minutes before Mincha
*NEW* Parshat Hashavua and w/ Rabbi Netanel NEW! Shabbat Afternoon
Isaacs: 8:00 PM in the Sephardic Beit Midrash Rabbis Class w/ Rabbi Gelman
Medical Halacha Series: 8:00 pm Seudat Shlishit - Now Studying: Pele Yoetz
Monthly (pg. 11)
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5778
Zmanim
SHACHARIT Late Maariv
8:00 PM (Shaarei Adirim in the Beit Midrash)
Sunday
Sephardic: 8:00 AM
Ashkenazi: 8:30 AM Shabbat
Mincha and Kabalat Shabbat
Weekdays 5 minutes after candle lighting
After Pesach - Plag
6:45 AM (Monday/Thursday 6:35 AM )
Early Minyan - Plag
7:45 AM (Monday - Friday)
Late Minayn - 7:00 PM
(Ashkenaz and Sephardic)
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
6:45 AM & 7:45 AM
Shabbat Morning
Rosh Chodesh Hashkama Minyan (Beit Midrash): 7:30 AM
Sunday: 8:15 AM Main Sanctuary: 9:00 AM
Monday - Friday: 6:30 AM, 7:45 AM Sephardic Sanctuary: 9:00 AM
Youth Minyan (once a month, see pg. 16 for
schedule): 9:30 AM (Beit Midrash)
EARLY MINCHA
(Shaarei Adirim in the Beit Midrash):
2:00 PM (Sunday-Thursday) Shabbat Afternoon
Mincha (Sephardic and Ashkenaz) - Approx 15
minutes before candle lighting time)
MINCHA/ MAARIV
15 minutes before Shkiah All minyanim are nusach Ashkenaz unless otherwise indicated.
KCTTalks TORAHWORTHSPREADING
2 AIPAC Shabbaton 3 YUTMK Shabbaton
1 Guest Speaker Gil Troy November 17-18, 2017
(Seudat Shlishit) Join the YUTMK for an uplifting
2 October 21, 2017 Shabbos of learning and ruach.
Throughout the Shabbat we will have
Gil Troy is the author of The Age of
the opportunity to meet and learn
Clinton: America in the 1990s, to be
from the Rosh Kollel, Rabbi Reuven
published by Thomas Dunne Books/
Brand and many Kollel fellows. Be
St. Martins Press in October 2015.
sure to catch the Oneg on Friday
In 2012, he edited and updated the
evening and dont forget to sign up
classic multi-volume History of
for the luncheon on Shabbat day.
American Presidential Campaigns,
originally edited by Arthur M.
Schlesinger, Jr. and Fred Israel. 4 Rabbi Josh Marder
His most recent book, Moynihans The Marriage Seminar
Moment: Americas Fight against
December 9, 2017
Zionism as Racism looking at the
3 4 fall of the UN and the rise of Reagan Josh is a prolific speaker and
therapist on marriage and family
was published by Oxford University
Press. Jewish Ideas Daily designated dynamics. He is brought all over
it one of its best books of 2012, and the country to lecture on martial
it was the winner of a 2014 J.I. Segal success in the modern world from
a Jewish perspective, and he has
5 Award in the category of English Non-
Fiction Award on a Jewish Theme. taught Couples and Family Therapy
at the university level. He is known
Troy has been widely published and and sought as a couples and family
quoted in the American, Canadian, therapist, a dynamic speaker for
and Israeli media, including writing Torah and modern psychology, and
for therapist trainings. He has trained
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nine essays for the New York
Ben Tzion Shafier Times feature Campaign Stops for over a decade in couples and
September 8-9, 2017 for the 2012 campaign. He writes a family therapy, and is one of the
weekly column for the Daily Beast first certified Emotionally Focused
Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier is the Therapists in Illinois. He has a thriving
Director of the www.theShmuz. on Forgotten American History,
putting current events in historical private practice in Skokie where
com. His website has impacted he helps couples, families, and
thousands of people world wide in perspective, as well as a weekly
column for the Jerusalem Post often individuals build their relationships,
a positive way. One can download along with offering seminars and
over 200 free shmuzin, watch Bursts republished in the Huffington Post.
He also blogs regularly at the History workshops throughout the Greater
of Inspiration and obtain his latest Chicago Area.
incredible sefer; Stop Surviving Start News Network, www.hnn.us, and
Living. His popular Shmuz on the has been published in the Wilson
Parsha Book can also be obtained Quarterly, the Washington Post,
the Montreal Gazette, the Globe
5 Rabbi Shalom
by going to www.theshmuz.com. Its Kupperman (With ICJL)
a great place to visit and even greater and Mail, the National Post, and
place to grow. The New Republic, among other March 9-10, 2018
publications. From 2012 to 2013 he Rabbi Shalom Kupperman is both
was Editor-at-Large at Open Zion of a practicing Rabbi for Etz Chaim
the Daily Beast. Synagogue in LEEDS and a licensed
psychotherapist. He has an MA in
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Psychotherapy and Counselling concerning the Universitys ordination) from RIETS, where he
from the University of Leeds, 2011; mission and vision, and oversees also earned the distinction of Yadin
a Certificate of Higher Education in the intellectual and philosophical Yadin.
Interpersonal and Counselling Skills initiatives emerging from the Office
from Leeds Metropolitan University, of the President. Previously Rabbi Rabbi Reiss served as director of the
2008. Rabbi Kupperman works Lamm was the William Fischman Beth Din of America from 1998 to
with Abuse, Addiction(s), Anxiety, Resident Scholar at the Jewish 2008. In his directorship of the Beth
Child related issues, Depression, Center on the Upper West Side. He Din, Rabbi Reiss worked to resolve
General counselling, Loss, Personal is passionate about exploring Jewish cases of agunot and popularized
Development, Relationships, and identity through the study of Jewish the use of the Rabbinical Council of
Stress. history and archaeology during the America pre-nuptial agreement as
Biblical, Second Temple and Rabbinic a protection against future agunah
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eras. His regular classes on Judaism problems.
Rabbi Ari Lamm and the origins of Christianity have
(in conjunction with the garnered a wide, online listenership, From 1992 to 1998, Rabbi Reiss
YUTMK Living Torah Series) and have been spotlighted on Voice was an associate at the international
of Israel radio. He is also a founding law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen
April 20-21, 2018
editor and contributing author at The & Hamilton in Manhattan. He is a
Rabbi Ari Lamm completed his B.A. in Lehrhaus. He is also keenly aware member of the New York State Bar
History & Jewish Studies at Yeshiva of Jewish responsibilities to the rest Association, a certified mediator for
University, and his M.A. in Jewish of humankind, and to that end is an the City of New York court system and
Studies and Eastern Christianity Executive Committee Member of a member of the Family and Divorce
at University College London. He the Sri Lanka based organization, Mediation Council for New York.
completed his Semichah at the Global Unites, which promotes
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological grassroots, non-violent, youth-based Rabbi Reiss serves on the editorial
Seminary in 2015 and is currently peace-making in conflict-torn areas board of Tradition magazine. A
pursuing his Ph.D. in the Religions from Africa and southeast Asia to frequent writer on a variety of topics
of Mediterranean Antiquity at Latin America and the Middle East. relating to both Jewish and secular
Princeton University. He was Yeshiva Rabbi Ari Lamm will be teaching at law, he has published widely in
Universitys first ever recipient of YUs Community Beit Midrash for the Jewish publications, as well as in the
the Fulbright Scholarship, which Fall 2017 semester. Wall Street Journal and New York
took him to London for his M.A. In Law Journal.
addition, he has received a Henry
Kressel Research Scholarship, a 7 Ahavat HaGer
Tikvah Postgraduate Fellowship, Workshop with Rabbi 7b Rabbi Dr. Dovid Fox
and is currently a Wexner Graduate Yona Reiss, Av Beth Din of Rabbi Dr. Dovid Fox of Los Angeles
Fellow. is by profession a forensic and
the Chicago Rabbinical
Council & Rabbi Dr. Dovid Fox clinical psychologist, author and
Rabbi Lamm is the Special Advisor to professor. He has held the position
the President of Yeshiva University, a April 22, 2018 of Professor at USC and at the
position he started in June with the California School of Professional
election of YUs fifth president, Rabbi 7a Rabbi Yona Reiss, Av Psychology, and was an Associate
Dr. Ari Berman. He works closely with Beth Din of the Chicago Clinical Professor in the School of
the president on all matters Medicine at Loma Linda University,
Rabbinical Council
6 Rabbi Yona Reiss, a noted Torah
and is a forensic consultant to the
California Institute of Technology and
scholar, attorney and jurist, is the Av its Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He
7a Beth Din of the Chicago Rabbinical
Council and a Rosh Yeshiva at the
specializes in diagnosis, trauma and
treatment of mental health disorders.
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological He is Director of Interventions and
Seminary at Yeshiva University Community Education for Project
(RIETS). He previously served as the Chai, the Crisis Intervention, Trauma
Max and Marion Grill Dean of RIETS. and Bereavement Department of
Chai Lifeline. He is a frequent lecturer
Rabbi Reiss is a summa cum laude and scholar in residence across the
graduate of Yeshiva College and globe, has published in scientific
went on to receive his law degree journals, and has chaired national
from Yale Law School, where he was and international mental health
a senior editor of the Law Journal.
7b He received semikhah (rabbinic
conferences.
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Yeshiva University. Rabbi Glasser She completed her PhD in the Bible
also serves as the Rav of the Young Department at Bar-Ilan University
Israel of Passaic-Clifton. Under his (2005). A former Tikvah Fellow, she
leadership, the congregation has is the recipient of a number of other
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Mini-Series
mini-series
MONDAY EVENINGS
ReJEWvination:
Giants of Thought who
Saved Their Communities
November 20, 2017
Baal Shem Tov
Rabbi Yaakov Klein
December 4, 2017
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
Rabbi Shaanan Gelman
Kashrut
Sunday May 27, 2018
Kosher Tour of Brewery
Rabbi Akiva Niehaus
June 4, 2018
Cholov Stam, Milking Rav Moshes Heter
Rabbi Kalman Worch
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Community
YUTMK Teen Minyan in conjunction
with KCT Youth
Monthly
YUTMK Monthly medical See pg. 16 for dates and more information.
halacha shiur
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November 10 | December 12
January 12 | February 16 |March 9
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Cook-Off
May 5th, 2018
Taste & vote for the best cholent chef at KCT or
show-off your mad cooking skills.
This one is for all the beans!
LUNCH + LEARNs
Lunch and Learn focuses on different topics in
contemporary Jewish law and parsha. Enjoy a lunch
with your friends and colleagues while engaging in
relevant discussions about business ethics, kashrut and
other common issues confronting us in modern times.
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Neshei/ Womens Learning
Neshei
co/chairs
Chaili Glickman & Ana Steinberg
Womens Learning
at the annual shul dinner.
Join us as we honor our
most dedicated members
while enjoying a gourmet Womens Coffee Talk
dinner and elegant night Wednesdays @ 9:15 AM
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Film
The Womans Balcony
December 2, 2017
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A Green Chariot
March 17, 2018
Fannys Journey
July 22, 2018, Tisha Baav
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