Gurary and Kahn met a prisoner in the Delaware Correction Center who Gurary said was “very involved in Judaism and puts on tefillin every day.” One year as the High Holidays came around ...

Wrapp is only usable during daytime, when tefillin is usually worn. Orthodox Judaism considers wearing tefillin a commandment that only applies to men, although some Orthodox feminists and many ...

This is one of the reminders of the tefillin. Reb Yisroel Salanter, zt”l, zy”a, famously said that the greatest distance in the world between one point and another is the distance between the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. One of the most sacred objects in Judaism is made of skin from a bull's neck. It's called tefillin, and each black box contains scrolls that must be written by hand.

It sounds like a Jewish improv setup: A Chabad guy asks Larry David to lay tefillin. But this was real life, and the Lubavitcher, a 21-year-old self-starter named Yossi Farro, was asking in front ...

Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar met with Russian-Israeli freed hostage Alexander Sasha Troufanov to pray and put on tefillin on Sunday, according to the Jewish leader, who also shared that ...

Thousands of Israelis across the country wrapped tefillin on Wednesday in memory of the Bibas family at orange stands set up by Chabad emissaries. On Wednesday morning, Rabbi Nati Wagner and Rabbi ...

who has sanctified us with His commandments as to wear tefillin. The kippah, often referred to as a skull cap, is worn by Jews as a sign of Jewish identity. In Orthodox Judaism the kippah is worn ...

A controversy arose at the Ohel Shem High School in Ramat Gan after the school principal, Israel Viluzhny, suspended a student for putting on tefillin (phylacteries) on the school grounds.

Judaism is the name of the religion ... Sometimes, I also wear tefillin when I pray, which are little boxes containing words from the Torah in them. I wear one on my head and one on my arm ...