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

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

What began as a two-minute ritual inside a Florida country club has grown into a federal civil rights case — and the latest flashpoint in a growing debate about religious expression in shared spaces.

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.

Tefillin, something you use every day to imbue your whole being with God’s words, is not something to shekel-pinch about and, with the help of Hashem, ...

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 ...

Tefillin, two small black boxes containing parchment with verses from the Hebrew Bible that are wound around the head and the arm with black leather straps, ...

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.

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.

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.