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 ...

Giving someone tefillin isn’t just handing them an object,” she told JNS. “It helps open up a whole world to them.” ...

Jerusalem police on Wednesday evening arrested a 14-year-old boy suspected of breaking ... Surprisingly, the teen was wearing tefillin (phylacteries) at the time of his arrest.

Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. It sounds like a Jewish ...

From intermarriage to emigration, nothing was too big or mundane for a blessing and guidance. The Avner Institute presents a ...

The 20-year-old told Israeli media that in addition to learning to recite "Shalom Aleichem" in Arabic, she and the other hostages with her would make the traditional Shabbat evening blessing ...

Known in Israel as “the Harvard of yeshivas,” Ponevezh sits perched on a hill above the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak. We ...

The Rebbe explained that when God appeared at Mount Sinai, He was returning to the world, His garden — transforming it into a ...

The blessing of being a writer, however, is that with my articles, I get to relive each day and remember every moment. Though ...

Without some direction, the newly-freed laborers might fall back on old ways – such as misdirecting ... like the vestment of a priest; and wear tefillin, like a reminder of the Ark of the ...