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

Tefillin are a sign for Israel-that is, a symbol and marker that expresses their very essence. The passages of the tefillin express the foundations of faith. One of these foundations is the centrality ...

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 ...

There are literally hundreds of different ways of choosing, wrapping, and storing a set of tefillin [phylacteries]. Eichler’s Judaica superstore offers more than 2,000 tefillin-related items for ...

Inspectors find tefillin without proper parchments and mezuzot missing entire words every single day. Discover why investing ...

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JERUSALEM (RNS) – On a bustling street corner in downtown Jerusalem earlier this month, a group of determined Jewish women performed a commandment long reserved for men. Standing in front of a table ...

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 ...

The airline that diverted a flight when a Jewish passenger started praying said it was forced to treat the incident as a bomb scare because the teen didn't clearly explain why he had strapped his ...

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 ...