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 ...

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With the rise of the ready-for-anything, giant tote, and the recent popularity of a Birkin dupe, we look at the evolution of the It bag and ask what our choice of bag reveals. If you're the sort ...

Each tefillin bag given to a soldier was embroidered with the name of a fallen soldier, and the adopting soldier committed to donning the tefillin in their honor. For many soldiers, this was the first ...

This shift has been bubbling since at least spring of last year, and now, it’s official: welcome to the resurgence of big bags—or, at least, bags bigger than a lipstick and a credit card.

The tiny tefillin set. The last remnants from Europe that my grandparents ... and on top of those I placed these Jewish family heirlooms in a Trader Joe’s paper bag. I haven’t needed to evacuate my ...