“I finally find a Jew in an alleyway, ask him if he wants to do tefillin. He agrees, we do tefillin together, take a picture,” Farro said in an interview, using the Hebrew word for the small ...

It sounds like a Jewish improv setup: A Chabad guy asks Larry David to lay tefillin. But this was real life, and the Lubavitcher, a 21-year-old self-starter named Yossi Farro, was asking in front ...

An curved arrow pointing right. One of the most sacred objects in Judaism is made of skin from a bull's neck. It's called tefillin, and each black box contains scrolls that must be written by hand.

So why shouldn’t it be as easy to score a set of tefillin? That, at least, was the question that led to the launch last month of Wrapp — an app its creator calls “the Uber of the tefillin ...

Giving someone tefillin isn’t just handing them an object,” she told JNS. “It helps open up a whole world to them.” ...

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.

Thousands of Israelis across the country wrapped tefillin on Wednesday in memory of the Bibas family at orange stands set up by Chabad emissaries. On Wednesday morning, Rabbi Nati Wagner and Rabbi ...

Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar met with Russian-Israeli freed hostage Alexander Sasha Troufanov to pray and put on tefillin on Sunday, according to the Jewish leader, who also shared that ...

At the CTeen International Shabbaton, 1,241 teens wrapped tefillin in two hours, smashing records in a tremendous display of ...

The reason for wearing the tefillin is based on a biblical law, which states: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your being, and all your might. These words that I am commanding you ...