The first thing I did when I heard news of the attack at Bondi Beach — at what must have been midnight Australian time — was ...

According to many halakhic authorities, the Torah obligation for men is to wear tefillin every day for just a brief moment.

A familiar sight at public gatherings, especially Jewish ones — young men in Hasidic garb wrapping black leather tefillin ...

The word phylactery comes from the Greek phylaktḗrion meaning amulet, safeguard, or protections. Phylacteries, tefillin in Hebrew, are small, specifically made boxes to contain Hebrew texts. They are ...

You can learn how to do pretty much anything on YouTube. There are tutorials for decorative fruit carving, moonwalking, building a turbo jet engine, preparing for the apocalypse and, of course, how to ...

On Jan. 21, a plane was diverted after a flight attendant noticed a “ suspicious passenger” strap an object to his wrist and his head. The culprit? Tefillin, prayer accessories for observant Jews. In ...

“You know Barbie’s getting a new job,” says my friend Mimi to me. “People can vote for her new career.” I put tefillin on a Mattel Barbie doll in 2006, unwittingly creating the Jewish icon now known ...

Tefillin, or phylacteries, are the black leather straps and boxes that are worn on the head and on the arm during weekday morning prayers. Madonna puts them on with her teeth. Barbie has a pair. Once ...

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 ...

A 7-year-old young boy's innocent excitement over a Chayenu card unexpectedly awakened the soul of a 50-year-old Jewish man ...

Education Minister Yoav Kisch has defended the actions of a school principal who was filmed telling a student to stop putting on tefillin, a Jewish ritual involving prayer, in a public space. Shai ...

After a night of tossing and turning, I finally gave up on sleeping at 11 a.m. Sunday morning. I rolled over, checked my phone and logged into social media. Everyone will have his or her “where were ...