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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 649

tefillin

Yossi Farro, center, finds himself between Jewish rapper Kosha Dillz, left, and actor Michael Rapaport, while facilitating the donning of tefillin. (Courtesy)
December 24, 2024, 3:54 am
This Chabadnik is on a mission to wrap tefillin for US Jewish celebrities
20-year-old Yossi Farro has facilitated prayer for public figures from Lil Dicky to Bill Ackman, saying they can inspire others to embrace mitzvahs
By Luke Tress
Bar Kuperstein was working at the Nova desert rave when Hamas terrorists attacked on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)
September 14, 2024, 7:48 pm
Nova hostage’s tefillin draw thousands in Israel and abroad to pray for his safe return
Israeli attorney travels with Bar Kuperstein’s phylacteries across Israel and North America at behest of captive’s mother
By ToI Staff
Tefillin from around 2,000 years ago in the laboratories of the Israel Antiquities Authority. (Emil Aladjem/IAA)
June 14, 2024, 10:24 am
Study: Ancient phylacteries’ natural leather color illustrates evolution of Jewish law
Analysis of 2,000-year-old tefillin found in Judean Desert caves shows no dye was used in their construction; deep black is mandated by contemporary Jewish Law
By Gavriel Fiske
Transportation Minister Miri Regev speaks to the media after a court hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Tel Aviv, January 31, 2024 (Flash90)
January 31, 2024, 3:23 pm
Judge asks Tel Aviv’s mayor to drop ‘time wasting’ libel lawsuit over public prayer
Ron Huldai is suing Transportation Minister Regev for saying he prevented people from putting on tefillin in the street
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: A Jewish man prays with tefillin and prayer shawl at a mass prayer for in Habima Square in Tel Aviv on August 2, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 22, 2023, 8:14 am
Minister defends principal who told student not to lay tefillin in public space
Yoav Kisch say video of incident did not reflect fact that Ra’anana school permits such religious actions within classrooms
By Canaan Lidor
A Netanya resident wearing a Meretz shirt holds a set of tefillin, or phylacteries, against his crotch at a Chabad booth in Netanya, outside a school where a voting booth is located, on Israel's general elections day, November 1, 2022. (Twitter screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 1, 2022, 4:46 pm
Netanya resident detained for holding tefillin against his crotch near voting booth
In a video of the incident, the man is seen wearing a Meretz shirt; left-wing party calls on election authorities to investigate, saying he was likely an imposter
By Tobias Siegal
The Yitzhak Rabin Border Terminal at the Wadi Araba crossing between Israel and Jordan. (CC BY 2.5, Wikipedia, NYC2TLV)
May 10, 2022, 11:56 pm
Group of Israelis barred from entering Jordan over tefillin in baggage
Seven men, part of organized trip to country, told by guards they could not enter as they could be targeted for religious symbol
By ToI Staff
10 sets of tefillin that the Shem Olam Holocaust museum said were found in Warsaw, Poland. (Courtesy of Shem Olam Faith & the Holocaust Institute for Education, Documentation & Research via JTA)
January 26, 2021, 8:43 pm
Israeli Holocaust museum accused of smuggling artifacts out of Warsaw
After Shem Olam museum near Hadera obtains 10 sets of phylacteries found by construction workers, Polish city says it had no knowledge of discovery
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Screen shot of the Metropolitan Museum of Art website with a revised description replaceing the word 'amulet' with 'phylactery' for an antique set of tefillin. (Screenshot via JTA)
July 29, 2020, 11:16 am
After Twitter storm, Met museum changes tefillin label from amulet to phylactery
But archive’s updated term for the leather boxes and straps still doesn’t mention its use in Jewish prayer
By JTA
StopAntisemitism.org was one of dozens of accounts to call attention to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's labeling of tefillin in its collection, July 25, 2020. (Twitter via JTA)
July 27, 2020, 1:04 pm
Met museum ‘mislabeling’ leads to Twitter tempest in a tefillin box
Jewish social media users ask for correction in NYC museum’s Islamic Art Department’s categorization of item, but academic says term is likely lexically correct
By Marcy Oster
A Women of the Wall member helps a woman lay tefillin at Tel Aviv's Savidor train terminal, February 17, 2020. (Courtesy Women of the Wall)
February 17, 2020, 3:22 pm
Hardline transportation minister scrambles after embrace from women’s group
Women of the Wall praises Bezalel Smotrich for ‘warm welcome’ of train terminal tefillin stand for women, prompting far-right criticism of him
By ToI Staff
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
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