The so-called “Tefillin Bomber”, as Jews are enjoying calling him, is the news item du jour, given that panic arising from a 17-year-old Orthodox Jew’s so-called “strange” activities onboard a New ...

Volunteers at a new outreach center named for two of the victims spread messages of hope where 15 people were killed and ...

for the most capital phylactery. The other on the weaker arm is placed, the left for most, and covered, hidden. The words which in a box are written are Bible texts, thus by the arm embraced. our ...

Phylacteries were not colored black 2,000 years ago, new study reveals Tefillin are small leather cases containing miniscule parchment scrolls inscribed with biblical verses. They are worn even today ...

LOS ANGELES — A burglar stole electronics, three sets of tefillin and other valuables from the Chabad house at the University of Southern California. The burglar, whose image was caught on a security ...

Days after a small corner of the internet erupted with criticism of how the Metropolitan Museum of Art labeled a Jewish ritual object in its collection, the New York museum has quietly revised the ...

The phylacteries Jews used in the Holy Land over 2,000 years ago were probably the color of their natural leather, not dyed black as mandated by Jewish Law today, according to a PLOS ONE study ...

Nine newfound penny-sized pieces of parchment believed to be part of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been found in Israel. The scrolls went unnoticed for almost 60 years until one scholar came across them ...

Fred Lerner of White River Junction, Vt., a little town that has now accounted for two straight columns (see last week’s “Now Shmear This”), has a complaint. He writes: “In the January 20 issue of the ...

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