tefillin

Bennett responds to satirical TV show: I am a proud Jew

Jewish Home Chairman responds to skit on 'Eretz Nehederet': 'Proud to be among the mezuzah-kissers and tefilin-layers.'

Outrage after satirical TV show mocks tefillin

Satirical show “Eretz Nehederet” airs sketch in which actor wears tefillin on his head.

Tefillin thrown in garbage found in recycling park

Maid throws tefillin in garbage, but family members don't despair; with help of family and friends tefillin located at Hiriya site.

'These are odd': Toronto airport agent baffled by Tefillin

Watch: Canadian security agent insists on opening passenger's Jewish religious items, refuses request to speak with manager.

Tel Aviv official: Chabad 'missionaries' need to be banned

Tel Aviv city council official rips Chabad 'missionary activities' after being asked whether he wanted to put on Tefillin.

Bnei Brak man arrested for torching tefillin

Police arrest man Bnei Brak resident who publicized footage of himself burning his tefillin in protest of 'religious coercion'.

Herzliya Mayor apologizes for Tefillin flap

Herzliya Mayor apologizes to Chabad Jew who was fined Friday for offering to put teffilin on passersby. 'It was a misunderstanding.'

He offered to help someone put on tefillin - and was fined

Herzliya municipal supervisor forces Chabad man to close tefillin stand, pay heavy fine.

Jewish Moscow presents 'tefillin bank'

After 'mezuzah bank' succeeds, Moscow's Chabad presents 'tefillin banks.'

Thieves take yeshiva boys’ luggage, tefillin during Chicago trip

Students on 8th grade graduation trip have newly received religious items stolen along with their luggage.

Boy who grew up as Muslim wraps tefillin for the first time

Woman escapes with her two children from her abusive Arab husband and returns to life as a Jew in Israel.

Watch: Chabad offers Tefillin to marchers in Auschwitz

CTeen, Chabad's branch for the youth, offers members of March of the Living the opportunity to wear Tefillin in Auschwitz.

Tefillin recovered from garbage dump

Haredi volunteers in New York find lost set of Tefillin accidentally thrown out by owner.

The 'holy city' of Tel Aviv dons tefillin, may break records

Rabbi Eli Naiditch, Chabad representative in Tel Aviv, was upset that polls said it was 'not a holy city'. He decided to prove it was.

USC Chabad center robbed of electronics, 3 sets of tefillin

Burglar steals electronics, three sets of tefillin and other valuables from the Chabad house at the University of Southern California.

On Holocaust Memorial Day: Stolen tefilin set on fire

Yeshiva students camping at Kinneret discover their religious belongings were horribly desecrated on the day commemorating the Holocaust.

How the discovery of missing girls inspired a return to Judaism

After missing Jewish teen girls found in Orlando swamp, the hotel's manager re-connects to his Jewish roots.

Watch: The 'Tefillin Jacket' makes davening a breeze

Davening shacharit wearing a suit has never been so easy...!

Duma suspects banned from lighting Hanukkah candles

Breach of religious rights to light holiday candles and don tefillin revealed in court; 'wide deprivation of rights, no case against them.'

Jordan Bans Religious Jews' Tefillin at the Border

A Jordanian security official last week forbade a group of religious Israeli tourists to bring in tefillin, because it might 'endanger' them

Embarrassed Police Admit 'No Ban on Shofar at Temple Mount'

Court throws out police requests to distance youths for 'crimes' of bringing religious articles into Temple Mount.

Bennett Says the 'Primitive Mezuzah Kissers' Are Going to Win

Bennett responds to leftist rally condemnation of religious, saying elections are for the Jewish nature of Israel.

After Arutz Sheva Expose, College Withdraws Offensive Exhibit

Film showed tefillin and tallitot used as underwear in gratuitous desecration of sacred items, triggering widespread outrage.

'Talit Panties' at Offensive College Art Exhibit

Sapir College has already raised anger with 'slaughter the Jew' hamsa - now its exhibit has underwear made out of Jewish ritual objects.

'The First Time I Put On Tefillin Since The War'

MDA holds moving bar mitzvah ceremony at Western Wall for 87 Holocaust survivors who were robbed of the experience by the Nazis.

46 years later

Owner of Lost Six-Day War Tefillin Found

Following a report on Arutz Sheva, Rafi Yanai identified the phylacteries he lost at the battle of Ammunition Hill.

Long-Lost Tefillin Waiting for Owner at Ammunition Hill

Forty six years after the Six Day War, ex-soldiers are trying to figure to whom a pair tefillin found on Ammunition Hill belongs.

'Tefidanit' Wins Battle of the Tefillin Protective Cases

A court ruled that Tefillin Beit El's 'Tefidanit' was the real thing, and ordered that a competitor's imitation product be pulled

Posh Mall Tells Chabad Man: Stay Out

A hassidic Jew who invited shoppers to put on tefillin was told he may not enter Ramat Aviv mall.

Tefillin-Fest for "Getting Stronger" Jews in Bnei Brak

Several dozen secular Jews from around the country gathered in Bnei Brak to put on their own tefillin for the first time - thanks to outreach org.