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 ...

After becoming the first kosher chef to earn a Michelin Star, Raz Shabtai celebrated the historic achievement by putting on ...

Tefillin, or phylacteries, are the black leather straps and boxes that are worn on the head and on the arm during weekday morning prayers. Madonna puts them on with her teeth. Barbie has a pair. Once ...

Eight Bar Mitzvah boys stood side by side at the Kosel, celebrating their acceptance of mitzvos at the site from which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

A few days ago, my son went for a haircut on his day off from the army. There is nothing unusual about that, you may think. Short back and sides, owing to the restrictions placed on him as a soldier, ...

When Molly Moses graduated from Harvard University in 2011, she wanted to pray each day wearing tefillin. But she couldn’t afford the several hundred dollar investment required to buy a pair of the ...