My son recently lost his Alter Rebbe’s ksav Tefillin while on Mivtzoim. Should I replace them with a high and lower-cost pairs?

At a time when our People is torn and rife with dissent, the Kesher Tefillin Project stands as a modest and humble testimony ...

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In other words, the lived experience of tefillin often emphasizes the container and the command more than the semantic ...

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Shortly before Boychik’s bar mitzvah, which was a few years back, his zeyde bought him tefillin. I have sweet photos of my (Haredi) father-in-law showing him how to put them on for the first time. At ...

“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 ...

Rabbi Professor David Golinkin is president and professor of Jewish law at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. For 20 years he served as chair of the Va’ad Halakhah (Law Committee) ...

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 ...