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Bind These Words as Totafot / Reflections on Tefillin

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

Since Oct. 7 at Chabad at Rowan, ‘Dozens of Jewish Boys Have Been Putting on Tefillin’

As a campus Chabad rabbi, Hersh Loschak often approaches students asking if they want to wrap tefillin. It’s a powerful Jewish ritual. It can also be completed in minutes. Yet after Oct. 7, Rowan ...
COLliveOpinion

Shema Yisrael, Tzitzit, and Tefillin: Faith, Identity, and Jewish Resilience Strengthening Jewish Identity as Our Response to Antisemitism

Strengthening Jewish identity is our most powerful response to and protection from antisemitism. It is how we have endured ...
The Forward

His calling: Wrapping the Jewish rich and famous — and Jake Paul — in tefillin

It sounds like a Jewish improv setup: A Chabad guy asks Larry David to lay tefillin. But this was real life, and the Lubavitcher, a 21-year-old self-starter named Yossi Farro, was asking in front of a ...
USA Today

Jewish Giants and Jets fans gather for kosher 'Tefillin Tailgate' at MetLife

EAST RUTHERFORD — Akiva Rosenfeld has a dream. The 21-year-old, who lives on a farm in Howell, wants to be the first observant Jewish DJ to play the main stage at mainstream music festivals around the ...