VOLUME 20, ISSUE 36 FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2013 / 24 ELUL 5773
TORAH PORTION: NITZAVIM- VAYAYLECH (DEUTERONOMY 29:9 – 31:30)
CANDLE LIGHTING: 7:06 P.M. SHABBAT ENDS: 8:15 PM (CHICAGO)

This week’s Shabbat Fax/Email is dedicated by Bruce & Kiki Wittert wishing Mazel Tov to our wonderful children Mitch and Amy Rose, on the occasion of Yosef Chaim’s ‘upsherin’ – his third birthday and special first haircut! May he grow to be a great human being and a great Jew, who is a pride to his family and the entire community. We wish to thank CTN for all they have done for our entire family.

Special Rosh Hashanah Issue

1. ‘IT IS YOUR WAY, OUR G-D, TO BE PATIENT WITH BOTH THE BAD PEOPLE AND THE GOOD PEOPLE …” (FROM THE SPECIAL HIGH HOLIDAY SEASON, ‘SELICHOT’ SERVICE, THAT BEGINS THIS SATURDAY NIGHT.)

G-d is patient with us. It’s an important theme to remember during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. (more…)

VOLUME 20, ISSUE 35 FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2013 / 17 ELUL 5773
TORAH PORTION: KI-SAVO (DEUTERONOMY 26:1 – 29:8)
CANDLE LIGHTING: 7:18 P.M. SHABBAT ENDS: 8:2 PM (CHICAGO)

This week’s CTN Shabbat Fax is sponsored by Rabbi Moshe Katz and family, in honor of the second yartzeit of his brother, Rabbi Reuven Katz z”l. “Growing up you were a role model for us. We loved Torah because you loved Torah. We wanted to live elevated lives because your life was elevated!”

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VOLUME 20, ISSUE 35 FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 2013 / 10 ELUL 5773
TORAH PORTION: KI-SAITZAI (DEUTERONOMY 21:10 – 25:19)
CANDLE LIGHTING: 7:28 P.M. SHABBAT ENDS: 8:37 PM (CHICAGO)

This week’s CTN Shabbat Fax is sponsored by Myra (Mickey) Sanderman in memory of her mother, Dorothy Kropman Lipp and her father, Louis E. Lipp, loving inspirations to her children, grandchildren, Stacy (Josh) Spielman and Steven Sanderman, and great grandchildren, Tziyona, Devorah, Yehuda, Ephraim and Aviva Spielman, and Hannah and Julia Sanderman.

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VOLUME 20, ISSUE 34 FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 2013 / 3 ELUL 5773
TORAH PORTION: SHOF’TIM (DEUTERONOMY 16:18 – 21:9)
CANDLE LIGHTING: 7:38 P.M. SHABBAT ENDS: 8:47 PM (CHICAGO)

This week’s CTN Shabbat Fax is dedicated by Julie Swartz, “thanking CTN for all the wonderful things you do for the Jewish community, and for helping me discover the beauty of Torah”.

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VOLUME 20, ISSUE 33 FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2013 / 26 AV 5773
TORAH PORTION: RE’EH (DEUTERONOMY 11:26 – 16:17)
CANDLE LIGHTING: 7:47 P.M. SHABBAT ENDS: 8:56 PM (CHICAGO)

This week’s CTN Shabbat Fax is dedicated by Jennifer and Jerry Albom, in celebration of the recent engagement of our daughter Malka to Ari Reich. May they build a beautiful Jewish home together!

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