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 ...

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

University of Illinois students on Monday wore Israeli flags draped around their shoulders and stood before tables laden with pamphlets, tefillin boxes and candles bearing the names of those still ...

The Tefillin are two small black leather boxes, that contain four biblical passages written on parchment, with leather straps that are worn by observant Jewish males aged 13 years and older.

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 ...

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 ...

Bar mitzvah boy requests dad’s tefillin after family killed Sole survivor of family, soon turning 13, sought just one thing after Hamas terrorists massacred his family and wrecked his home.

Tefillin are phylacteries, small leather boxes containing Hebrew verses, and are used for Jewish rituals. His grandfather, who had survived the Holocaust, had given it to him, he explained.

Street stands where members of the Chabad Jewish Ultra-Orthodox movement ask men to put on phylacteries, or Tefillin - a pair of black leather boxes containing Hebrew parchment scrolls.

Police said they arrested an activist from the left-wing Meretz party in the central city of Netanya on Tuesday for “harming religious sentiment by making improper use of tefillin.” A video ...

The boxes contain parchment scrolls with verses from the Shema in Hebrew (along with other biblical paragraphs that mention tefillin.). Tefillin connect to the meaning of me'od as "might." ...