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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 ...

Some of the most inspirational pictures from this war are of IDF soldiers in their green uniforms and wearing their black tefillin proudly on their arms and head. There is something about tefillin ...

I texted back that my wife thought we were available. A few minutes later a text came asking if I was Mrs. Amy. I texted that I wasn’t Mrs. Amy and had never been but it was a problem. A return text ...

In an emotional and direct journey from France to the front lines in Gaza, Rabbi Yossi Amar, Director of Beth Chabad 77, accompanied by a large delegation from his community who came especially for ...

The antique silver menorah. The shabbos candlesticks. The tiny tefillin set. The last remnants from Europe that my grandparents, all Holocaust survivors, managed to shlep to America. And I need to get ...