Wrapping tefillin daily (though not on the Sabbath) ... all ages, and both Ashkenazi- and Sephardic-style wrapping. All the better to imitate Putterman’s own Jewish community, she said.

For many years, I’ve stood with members of my congregation in our cemetery — not to bury a person, but to bury books. There ...

The video will also feature a Jew who wraps tefillin according to Sephardic rather than Ashkenazic customs, and a left-handed person (left-handed people wear tefillin on the right rather than left ...

Arsonists set fire to a small roadside synagogue in north-central Israel before dawn in Friday, but the fire was put out before it could consume holy books and tefillin (phylacteries). 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 ...

A rare look at ancient DNA from the teeth of medieval Ashkenazi Jews reveals that this group had more genetic diversity 800 years ago than it does today.