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 ...

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 ...

If Judge Toker's ruling stands following the higher court’s proceedings, it could render the police's use of such removals invalid.

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 ...

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 ...

Tefillin is special to me because, thanks to the Rebbe’s tefillin campaign, it is the mitzvah I have had the zechus to personally share with the most fellow Jews. In 1967 as The Six-Day War ...