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In the recent flurry of discussion around gender, tefillin and Orthodoxy, a key point about the essence of tefillin has been missed. Put simply, tefillin, at its core, encodes full citizenship in the ...

Rachel Putterman, a 52-year-old rabbinical student, raised over $5,000 to film a tutorial featuring a diverse set of Jews. (JTA) — Rachel Putterman never learned how to put on tefillin when she was ...

But as it did for her, the idea of wearing tefillin during prayer takes some getting used to for most women. Moses grew up in a Reform-affiliated family and had never seen anyone, male or female, ...

Original image Credit: Jen Taylor Friedman - Soferet (Torah scribe) and creator of “Tefillin Barbie” I wouldn’t quite call it a trend, but a growing number of women and girls in the Orthodox Jewish ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now and Friday Focus podcasts and heads up The Times of Israel's features. “After I took them off, ...

felt frumly by each faithful Jew. In “Filling Your Phylacteries” What’ s in a Word, 1/17/24, Reuven Chaim Klein writes: When Judah had given his ptil (usually translated as “wick,” but in this case ...

For his bar mitzvah, David’s father bought him high-quality tefillin from a sofer whom he knew in Yerushalayim. Six years later, David went to learn in Israel. He decided to have his tefillin checked, ...

The horse is out of the barn. There are no rules anymore. Everything goes. Making it up as you go along. These are among the clichés that came to mind when reading the many articles penned by those ...

On Jan. 21, a plane was diverted after a flight attendant noticed a “ suspicious passenger” strap an object to his wrist and his head. The culprit? Tefillin, prayer accessories for observant Jews. In ...