At a time when our People is torn and rife with dissent, the Kesher Tefillin Project stands as a modest and humble testimony ...

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

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

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

“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 ...

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Rabbi Professor David Golinkin is president and professor of Jewish law at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. For 20 years he served as chair of the Va’ad Halakhah (Law Committee) ...

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 ...

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.” ...