The word phylactery comes from the Greek phylaktḗrion meaning amulet, safeguard, or protections. Phylacteries, tefillin in Hebrew, are small, specifically made boxes to contain Hebrew texts. They are ...
Through articles, charts, a WhatsApp support line, and hands-on classes, Moshe Gantz and Joseph Miller, Founders of ...
“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 ...
A person who was on Bondi Beach tells of his interaction with retired police detective and freelance photographer Peter ...
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NEW YORK — Yossi Farro, a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, was walking down a street in Los Angeles in the fall of 2022 when he saw a production company filming a TV show. He started ...
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 has defended the actions of a school principal who was filmed telling a student to stop putting on tefillin, a Jewish ritual involving prayer, in a public space. Shai ...
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 ...
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 ...
David Miller* [*not his real name], a pious observant Jew was at Logan Airport getting ready to board United Flight 175. He was going to LA on an important business trip and had to make this flight. A ...
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