Chassidic artist Shneor Lipsker tells how the Rebbe guided him to discover a serious issue with his Tefillin that no one else ...

Nahum, a 61-year-old father of four who was killed when an Iranian missile struck his apartment building last week, have been ...

But tefillin use has not taken hold among women in the liberal denominations, the Gemach’s primary market, the way wearing a prayer shawl, or tallit, and yarmulke have.

The Beis Din of Crown Heights is warning that questionable Tefillin and Mezuzos written by Yaakov Shlomo Itzkovitz of Ukraine ...

He agrees, we do tefillin together, take a picture,” Farro said in an interview, using the Hebrew word for the small black boxes observant Jews bind to their head and arm on weekdays, ...

Tefillin are a two-piece set of leather straps attached to leather boxes. Inside the boxes are important Hebrew prayers calligraphed on tiny animal-hide scrolls.

In the recent flurry of discussion around gender, tefillin and Orthodoxy, a key point about the essence of tefillin has been missed. Put simply, tefillin, at its core, encodes full citizenship in ...

Women of the Wall board member Dina Greenberg, right, helps another woman lay tefillin during an event in Jerusalem on Feb. 3, 2019. Photo by Elizabeth Kirshner and Tammy Gottlieb/Women of the Wall ...

The tefillin written by Rabbi Elimelech burned in a fire, and so did the ones purchased with love by my parents. Neither “new pair” can ever replace the earlier ones.

Our grandson Naveh lost his tefillin two years ago. They were a prized possession, ordered from a scribe whom he had met early in his bar mitzvah preparation process and had given them to Naveh ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS/AP) A religious Jew wearing a series of black boxes and leather straps called tefillin or phylacteries inadvertently set off a bomb scare on a US Airways flight to Kentucky.

The ancient tefillin were examined using scientific methods. According to Jewish law, the tefillin boxes (Batim) should be colored black (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim, 32:40). However, a team of ...