The so-called “Tefillin Bomber”, as Jews are enjoying calling him, is the news item du jour, given that panic arising from a 17-year-old Orthodox Jew’s so-called “strange” activities onboard a New ...

Tefillin are small leather cases containing miniscule parchment scrolls inscribed with biblical verses. They are worn even today by observant Jews as part of their morning prayers. Jewish wearers of ...

The phylacteries Jews used in the Holy Land over 2,000 years ago were probably the color of their natural leather, not dyed black as mandated by Jewish Law today, according to a PLOS ONE study ...

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Nine newfound penny-sized pieces of parchment believed to be part of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been found in Israel. The scrolls went unnoticed for almost 60 years until one scholar came across them ...

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 ...