who has sanctified us with His commandments as to wear tefillin. The kippah, often referred to as a skull cap, is worn by Jews as a sign of Jewish identity. In Orthodox Judaism the kippah is worn ...

The tallit and tefillin were part of him ... It was the 25th anniversary of the March of the Living. JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong ...

The tefillin is worn by Jewish men during morning prayer. The leather boxes usually contain scrolls of parchment with verses from the Torah Reform close Reform JewsJews who have adapted their laws ...

“I guess I’m a purist,” says Raphael Gribetz, who left behind the trauma of his Jewish New York roots ... his mornings swathed in a tallit and tefillin, spends most of his days making ...

Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar met with Russian-Israeli freed hostage Alexander Sasha Troufanov to pray and put on tefillin ...