Laying tefillin may be the sign of a good Jewish boy, but the black leather still carries a bad boy association. Let’s be real: Leather is hot, whether or not it has parchment inscribed with ...

Yossi Farro wrapping tefillin with (clockwise from top left): BLP Kosher, Bill Ackman, Jake Paul, James Franco, Michael Rapaport and Lil Dicky. (Photos courtesy of Yossi Farro) Graphic by Louis Keene ...

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 ...

The Rabbeinu Efraim teaches us that the letter shin embedded on the tefillin shel rosh, the tefillin that goes upon the head, has a numerical value of 300. This number corresponds to the 300 days ...

Rabbi Shmuel Tiechtel, the founding executive director of Chabad at ASU, said that putting on tefillin as a group aimed to bring the ASU Jewish community together in prayer. "The idea is coming ...