A new grant for Jewish men who want to put Tefillin every day, but can't afford to purchase their own set, was announced last ...

The ancient tefillin were examined using scientific methods. According to Jewish law, the tefillin boxes (Batim) should be colored black (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim, 32:40). However, a team of ...

But tefillin use has not taken hold among women in the liberal denominations, the Gemach’s primary market, the way wearing a prayer shawl, or tallit, and yarmulke have.

Tefillin are a two-piece set of leather straps attached to leather boxes. Inside the boxes are important Hebrew prayers calligraphed on tiny animal-hide scrolls.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS/AP) A religious Jew wearing a series of black boxes and leather straps called tefillin or phylacteries inadvertently set off a bomb scare on a US Airways flight to Kentucky ...

A moment later she placed a second tefillin box at the front of her head, secured by pre-tied straps. Finally, she recited a prayer acknowledging God’s presence and the commandment to lay tefillin.

Tefillin from about 2,000 years ago in the laboratories of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The Jewish Press web article “New Study Suggests Some Tefillin Boxes Were Not Colored Black 2,000 ...

Did a Flight 175 passenger who insisted upon retrieving his forgotten tefillin delay the doomed flight?

Every set of Tefillin has two boxes: the “hand tefillin,” which are placed on the arm, and the “head tefillin.” This duality relates to the two basic life movements that we have so often ...

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 and the Acupoint Connection The head tefillin (tefillin shel rosh) is traditionally placed just above the forehead, nestled between the eyes.

A Kentucky-bound flight landed in Philadelphia after an attendant reported a Jewish teenager onboard who was praying and wearing tefillin.