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 ...

A beautiful axiom of Jewish tradition is that one mitzvah will beget another. Nowhere is this wisdom more clearly displayed than in the workings of the incredibly innovative Kesher Tefillin Project ...

“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 ...

Hours before the ground maneuver in Lebanon began and IDF forces entered to fight Hezbollah, a special "Field Unit" from Ezer ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The so-called “Tefillin Bomber”, as Jews are enjoying calling him, is the news item du jour, given that panic arising from a 17-year-old Orthodox Jew’s so-called “strange” activities onboard a New ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waded into a controversy Thursday about a sketch in a popular satirical TV show that portrayed tefillin, saying that “there are some things that one just doesn’t do.” ...

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 ...