In other words, the lived experience of tefillin often emphasizes the container and the command more than the semantic ...

This past December, a Modern Orthodox Jewish high school in Riverdale, N.Y., started allowing two female students to put on tefillin, small black leather boxes containing verses from the Bible with ...

Synopsis: We previously cited the Mechaber who explains the mitzvah of Tefillin as requiring them to be worn the entire day, but due to the constraints of the human condition whereby one might not be ...

Fred Lerner of White River Junction, Vt., a little town that has now accounted for two straight columns (see last week’s “Now Shmear This”), has a complaint. He writes: “In the January 20 issue of the ...

Rabbi Professor David Golinkin is president and professor of Jewish law at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. For 20 years he served as chair of the Va’ad Halakhah (Law Committee) ...