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An Orthodox Jewish woman (left) prays alongside a young Jewish woman wearing tefillin at the Western Wall (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 27, 2019, 4:31 pm
Women of the Wall get approval for women’s tefillin stand in Jerusalem
City authorizes move after months-long battle, but not at requested location, leading rights group to accuse it of discrimination
By Michael Bachner
Jack Rubinstein, MD, associate professor in the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, is shown demonstrating a layman's version of tefillin (Courtesy/ University of Cincinnati)
October 15, 2018, 4:06 am
Wearing tefillin could be good for the heart, US study indicates
The act of tightly wrapping leather strap around the arm on a daily basis appears to help blood flow and lower risks of a heart attack, according to University of Cincinnati study
By TOI staff
The brainchild of a 39-year-old Brooklyn Chabadnik, Wrapp enables users to find someone nearby who can lend them a set of Tefillin. (Tefillinwrapp.com)
July 15, 2018, 5:01 am
Need tefillin? There’s an app for that
‘Wrapp’ crowd sources the Chabad mission of helping Jews pray by offering a platform for instant lending and borrowing of phylacteries
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Pnina Peri berates man for putting on tefillin at Ben Gurion airport on May 28, 2018. (Screen capture: Facebook/Gad Kaufman)
May 30, 2018, 9:03 pm
Israeli woman disputes ‘distorted’ clip of airport rant over tefillin
Pnina Peri, an expert in multicultural theories, recorded yelling at rabbi and businessman; she says they told her ‘It’s too bad that Hitler didn’t kill you’
By TOI staff and JTA
Yonatan Gher
May 30, 2018, 3:14 pm
Yonatan Gher
When is freedom of religion hypocrisy?
Had the airport tefillin-wearer been female, she’d have been taken to task for being a ‘provocateur’
Rabbinical students at Hebrew College near Boston, including Gita Karasov, left, are creating a video that shows women, transgender and non-binary Jews demonstrating how to wear tefillin. (Dena Trugman/via JTA)
April 15, 2018, 5:01 am
Women and transgender Jews to shoot explainer video on how to lay tefillin
Geared towards the non-Orthodox who want to wrap phylacteries, ‘All Genders Wrap’ will include a diverse group of various ages, ethnicities, and racial backgrounds
By Josefin Dolsten
Illustrative, Tefillin. (image via Shutterstock)
June 16, 2017, 5:51 am
Thieves nab yeshiva boys’ luggage, tefillin during Chicago visit
Bags of 10 Beth Yehudah students stolen, containing phylacteries worth up to $3,000
By JTA
Kirk and Anne Douglas at their 60th wedding anniversary in 2014. (Christopher Briscoe)
June 2, 2017, 9:08 pm
How 100-year-old Kirk Douglas found true love
Jewish star and wife’s new book is a compilation of the couple’s letters and photos from 63 years of marriage
By Tom Tugend
Smartphone apps can help with everything from putting on tefillin correctly to finding a minyan to locating a kosher restaurant. (Lior Zaltzman/JTA)
May 10, 2017, 10:36 am
These 7 smartphone apps make life easier for religious Jews
Observant Jews can now look no further than their phones to find the nearest prayer quorum or kosher restaurant
By Josefin Dolsten
Amanda B. Dan
February 3, 2017, 1:12 pm
Amanda B. Dan
My boychik is now a manchik
On what it means to mother a first born, and the freedom to choose to be wrapped in God’s compassion
Screen capture of security camera footage showing a tefillin set falling from a cubby into a garbage bin at a Satmar Hasidic synagogue in Brooklyn, New York. (YouTube screen capture/Yeshiva World News)
November 18, 2016, 4:22 am
Satmar Hasidim search 300 tons of garbage for tefillin
Volunteers flock to New York landfill in search of sacred ritual object that fell unnoticed into waste bin
By JTA
A man caught on security cameras as he burglarized the Chabad Center at the University of Southern California in july 2016. (YouTube/collivedotcom)
July 21, 2016, 11:32 am
Phylacteries nabbed from LA Jewish center
Burglar also takes electronics, workmen’s tools from building at University of Southern California
By JTA
Rabbi Burt Siegel in his apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan (Cathryn J. Prince/Times of Israel)
March 31, 2016, 3:24 am
NY Reform rabbi seeks spirituality in all the wrong places
After searching for years in ashrams in India, yeshivas in Jerusalem, Burt Siegel finally reconnects with his Judaism — in New York at a Chabad House
By Cathryn J. Prince
Jewish-Argentinian director Daniel Burman’s new feature film, 'El Rey del Once' (The Tenth Man). (Marcos Lopez)
March 12, 2016, 6:05 am
Argentine director returns to Jewish roots with ‘The Tenth Man’
In his new movie, filmmaker Daniel Burman explores the Buenos Aires of his youth and the people who live there
By Igal Avidan
Rabbi Dovid Goldstein, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of West Houston and a chaplain in the Texas prison system, with death-row inmate Jedidiah Murphy, who donned tefillin for the first time to celebrate his bar mitzvah. (Courtesy Chabad.org)
February 18, 2016, 3:39 am
Texas death-row inmate wraps tefillin for first time
Jedidiah Murphy, born Jewish but raised in foster homes, convicted in 2001 for murder of 79-year-old woman
By JTA
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