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

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 ...

Ramaz, a Modern Orthodox school in Manhattan, has joined SAR in agreeing to allow girls to pray with tefillin, although the school’s principal reportedly says no students are currently doing so. “If a ...

Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum, Shliach and Chaplain in Baltimore, Maryland and director of the Jewish Uniformed Service Association ...

Tefillin are a sign for Israel-that is, a symbol and marker that expresses their very essence. The passages of the tefillin ...

Could we create vegan tefillin? By vegan tefillin, I do not, of course, mean tefillin made from corn. That would not fulfill the holy mitzvah. But could we ensure that our Jewish ritual objects, which ...

A US Airways pilot diverted a flight amid concerns about a passenger using some suspicious-looking black boxes. Only problem? The young man was an Orthodox Jew using “tefillin,” a ritual accessory ...