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 ...

A pilot study by researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine found that regular users of tefillin, or phylacteries, may receive cardiovascular health benefits though remote ...

A bochur was assaulted and beaten on Monday morning in Crown Heights. Police are searching for the perpetrator who beat the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...