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Eliya Cohen was released after 505 days of captivity by Hamas in Gaza, returning to Israel on Feb. 8, 2025. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon.
Freed Hamas hostage dons tefillin in ‘death shelter’
In an emotional full-circle moment, former Hamas captive Eliya Cohen returned Sunday for the first time to the bunker from which he was kidnapped and donned tefillin.
Merav Sever
April 20, 2025
Attendees of the annual CTeen Shabbaton in Brooklyn, N.Y., participate in an effort to break the world record for putting on tefillin, Feb. 28, 2025. Photo by Shalom Ross/Merkos 302.
Jewish teens set ‘tefillin’-wrapping world record at CTeen Shabbaton
Putting it on is “like the face of Judaism,” said Sammy Seokar, 16, an 11th-grader from Boynton Beach, Fla.
Vita Fellig
March 4, 2025
Mary Jarada, 23, founder of the charity campaign Tefillin on Us, at Machon Stam in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., from which she had just purchased her 200th pair of tefillin to donate, Jan. 8, 2025. Photo by Vita Fellig.
‘It changes everything,’ says Mary Jarada, who has donated 200 pairs, $135,000 worth of tefillin
“Giving someone tefillin isn’t just handing them an object,” she told JNS. “It helps open up a whole world to them.”
Vita Fellig
Feb. 24, 2025
Alexander Troufanov enters into the hands of Israeli forces, inside the Gaza Strip, Feb. 15, 2025. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.
Top Russian rabbi helps freed Gaza captive put on tefillin
Berel Lazar, who lobbied to obtain Sasha Troufanov's release, instructed him on how to perform the religious rite for the first time.
Feb. 16, 2025
An illustrative image of a pair of tefillin. Source: DeepAI.
Binding, bonding, blessing
Every single mitzvah has infinite, cosmic effects unseen by us, but also, by practicing the commandments, we become more refined, more mature, more elevated.
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
Aug. 14, 2024
Tefillin from about 2,000 years ago in the laboratories of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Photo by Emil Aladjem/IAA.
Tefillin were not dyed black 2,000 years ago
Second Temple period phylacteries found near Qumran underwent a battery of scientific tests.
June 16, 2024
Rabbi Meir Peretz with the mezuzah scroll. Credit: Courtesy.
Scribe writes largest mezuzah for private home in Israel
"Writing the mezuzah took at least 6-7 hours," said Rabbi Meir Peretz.
May 29, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dons tefillin (phylacteries), May 12, 2024. Credit: Prime Minister's Office.
Netanyahu photographed for the first time wrapping tefillin
Acceding to the wish of a grieving mother, the prime minister donned the tefillin that had belonged to her son, a soldier killed in action in 2014.
Miri Weissman
May 12, 2024
An image of the crescent moon in the night sky. Source: Efasein/Shutterstock
Waxing and waning
Time, too, needs to be sanctified.
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
April 3, 2024