Deuteronomy 6: 5-9 When the tefillin have been put on, a special prayer is said – Blessed are ... is worn by Jews as a sign of Jewish identity. In Orthodox Judaism the kippah is worn by Jewish ...

Weeks later, he was on Melrose in Los Angeles when he asked another passerby if they were Jewish and offered to wrap tefillin for him. They said the prayer, snapped a picture and Farro went on his ...

It's called tefillin, and each black box contains scrolls that must be written by hand. Now, demand for these prayer objects has soared since the war in Israel and Gaza that erupted on October 7 ...

It’s not unusual to see Chabadniks wrapping tefillin around men’s arms, and reciting and explaining the blessings, but it’s less familiar when the setting is prison and the pupils are convicts.

It connects those who have tefillin — leather straps attached to a set of two small boxes containing scripture on parchment — with Jews who need them for morning prayers or other rituals.

Tefillin are worn by Jewish men during morning prayer. The leather boxes contain scrolls of parchment with verses from the Torah ...

In an emotional and direct journey from France to the front lines in Gaza, Rabbi Yossi Amar, Director of Beth Chabad 77, ...