Chabadniks wrapping tefillin around men’s arms, and reciting and explaining the blessings, isn’t unusual. But it’s less familiar when the setting is prison – in this case Northern State ...

Jewish wearers of phylacteries (tefillin) for prayer have taken it for granted that the cases that hold them and the straps were always black, as designated by halacha (Jewish law). But ...

Sasha Troufanov, released yesterday from Hamas captivity, met with Russia's Rabbi Berel Lazar on Sunday, who helped him put on Tefillin for the first time in his life. After putting on the ...

During their search of the synagogue, the firefighters found a bag containing tefillin (phylacteries),which was burned. Upon opening the bag, however, they were shocked to find the tefillin ...

Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar met with Russian-Israeli freed hostage Alexander Sasha Troufanov to pray and put on tefillin on Sunday, according to the Jewish leader, who also shared that ...

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 ...

So why shouldn’t it be as easy to score a set of tefillin? That, at least, was the question that led to the launch last month of Wrapp — an app its creator calls “the Uber of the tefillin ...

The reason for wearing the tefillin is based on a biblical law, which states: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your being, and all your might. These words that I am commanding you ...