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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 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 ...

The spiritual jolt of those first weeks has not fully faded, and increased religious practice has become part of the ...

Ramaz, a Modern Orthodox school in Manhattan, has joined SAR in agreeing to allow girls to pray with tefillin, although the school’s principal reportedly says no students are currently doing so. “If a ...

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 ...

“As long as I am the Minister of Transportation, it is permissible and even desirable to have stands offering information on Judaism and Tefillin at the train stations.” לתומי חשבתי שבאתם לשפר את ...

Rachel Putterman, a 52-year-old rabbinical student, raised over $5,000 to film a tutorial featuring a diverse set of Jews. (JTA) — Rachel Putterman never learned how to put on tefillin when she was ...

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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 ...