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.

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 ...

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 ...

Sasha Troufanov, released yesterday from Hamas captivity, met with Russia's Rabbi Berel Lazar on Sunday, who helped him put on Tefillin for the first time in his life. After putting on the ...