Today (Monday) at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Rabbi of Safed and member of the Chief Rabbinate Council, conducted a tefillin-laying ceremony for his grandson, who is ...

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 ...

“You know Barbie’s getting a new job,” says my friend Mimi to me. “People can vote for her new career.” I put tefillin on a Mattel Barbie doll in 2006, unwittingly creating the Jewish icon now known ...

There are many ways to celebrate a birthday, yet Rabbi Zalman Deitsch of Schottenstein Chabad Student Center at Ohio State ...

On Jan. 21, a plane was diverted after a flight attendant noticed a “ suspicious passenger” strap an object to his wrist and his head. The culprit? Tefillin, prayer accessories for observant Jews. In ...

Tefillin, or phylacteries, are the black leather straps and boxes that are worn on the head and on the arm during weekday morning prayers. Madonna puts them on with her teeth. Barbie has a pair. Once ...

The Gaon replied that the Gemara says specifically that tefillin generates fear when they are in the head – “eilu tefillin she’b’rosh” – not when they are simply worn on the head.” The Gaon said that ...

The so-called “Tefillin Bomber”, as Jews are enjoying calling him, is the news item du jour, given that panic arising from a 17-year-old Orthodox Jew’s so-called “strange” activities onboard a New ...

In February 1985, the short stories and novels of S.Y. Agnon were the furthest thing from my mind. I was deep in Southern Lebanon with my IDF platoon, near the ...

Tefillin — phylacteries — have become a source of contention in the Modern Orthodox world. Female high-schoolers, on both coasts of the United States, are seeking rabbinic permission to adorn tefillin ...

A New York Charedi traveler experienced an unexpected miracle this week when his lost Tallis and Tefillin were recovered from ...