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 ...

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 ...

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Through articles, charts, a WhatsApp support line, and hands-on classes, Moshe Gantz and Joseph Miller, Founders of ...

The word phylactery comes from the Greek phylaktḗrion meaning amulet, safeguard, or protections. Phylacteries, tefillin in Hebrew, are small, specifically made boxes to contain Hebrew texts. They are ...

Tefillin, or phylacteries, are the black leather straps and boxes that are worn on the head and on the arm during weekday morning prayers. Madonna puts them on with her teeth. Barbie has a pair. Once ...

Ritual a difficult taboo to break, even as other gender norms fall; Yeshivah of Flatbush now debating issue for its students. A debate about whether female students should be allowed to pray wearing ...

There are literally hundreds of different ways of choosing, wrapping, and storing a set of tefillin [phylacteries]. Eichler’s Judaica superstore offers more than 2,000 tefillin-related items for ...

On Jan. 21, a plane was diverted after a flight attendant noticed a “ suspicious passenger” strap an object to his wrist and his head. The culprit? Tefillin, prayer accessories for observant Jews. In ...

Some rabbis have ruled that the peelable straps are kosher, the Orthodox website Vos Iz Neias reported. At issue with the leatherboard straps is whether the material used in the strap was made ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now and Friday Focus podcasts and heads up The Times of Israel's features. “After I took them off, ...

Several Modern Orthodox High Schools in the New York area have recently allowed female students to don tefillin during the morning prayer services at school. This decision has generated much ...