Word: tefillin
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...advocate,” Dershowitz wrote in a 2003 book about Chabad, “The Rebbe’s Army.” “I think it’s great that they get out there and ask people, ‘Have you put on tefillin today? Have you done a mitzvah today?’”HOME AT HILLEL?On the other hand, talk of a purported in-crowd at Hillel—where Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Jews have separate prayer services and e-mail lists—surfaced more than once...
...long as he doesn’t try and cash in on his differences, right? Well, enter the video for the first single, “Youth,” off the upcoming album of the same name. It begins with ‘Yahu ludicrously un-wrapping his tefillin like a boxer taping up his gloves before a title fight. Don’t forget it kids: he’s the Jewish reggae rapper. He bum-rushes the stage, rocks the appropriately youthful and attractive crowd, and prances around in an Adidas track suit. All of this takes...
...failed in their recitations. But he was also fearless: once leaping into a whirlpool on the River Tisza in his flowing black caftan to rescue a drowning child. On another occasion, when a local bailiff came to extract a bribe and ended up trying to run off with a tefillin, a sacred phylactery, Abraham attacked him mercilessly. The old man backed off only when his wife hustled the bailiff into the kitchen and plied him with liquor. "You will see, you Jew, you will soon be in difficulties!" warned the man. While the Holocaust is not the focus of Centropa...
...fifth commandment requires a demonstration for many who visit the vans: putting on tefillin, the phylacteries that Orthodox Jewish males over 13 must wear on their foreheads and left arms (near the heart) during weekday prayer. The tefillin-two small leather boxes containing scriptures similar to those in the mezuzah and wound on with leather thongs-are a sign that the wearer subjugates his heart and mind to God. Wrapping on the tefillin for the first time is the high point of the Jewish religious initiation for males, the bar mitzvah ceremony. When an uninitiated Jewish male drops...
Religion = Nationalism? The new government program carefully avoids the word "religious." In its pamphlet distributed to teachers last week, the Ministry of Education refers to learning about Talmud and Torah, tallith and tefillin as "inspiration from the glorious past of the Jewish nation." This sedulously secular approach, many teachers in religious schools think, dooms the program from the start. Said one teacher: "Sacred matters are being treated as if they were small change. The children will be confused and unimpressed...