You can learn how to do pretty much anything on YouTube. There are tutorials for decorative fruit carving, moonwalking, building a turbo jet engine, preparing for the apocalypse and, of course, how to ...

JTA — Rachel Putterman never learned how to put on tefillin when she was younger, so when she enrolled in rabbinical school, she consulted with fellow students. But the 52-year-old couldn’t quite get ...

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This article looks at Tefillin, the cubic black leather boxes with leather straps that Orthodox Jewish men wear on their head and their arm during weekday morning prayer. Tefillin (sometimes called ...

Several Modern Orthodox High Schools in the New York area have recently allowed female students to don tefillin during the morning prayer services at school. This decision has generated much ...

Education Minister Yoav Kisch participated Monday in the Knesset Subcommittee for Jewish Thought in the Education System, headed by MK Galit Distel Atbaryan, where he presented the “Shorashim” program ...

Rabbi Amichai Eyal, founder of the “Or Chadash (New light)” organization, talks to Arutz Sheva about a new project he has established, whose goal is uniting the Jewish People through enhancing the ...

Could we create vegan tefillin? By vegan tefillin, I do not, of course, mean tefillin made from corn. That would not fulfill the holy mitzvah. But could we ensure that our Jewish ritual objects, which ...