The Forward

‘Challah’ and ‘tefillin’ were code words in the Chabad of Poway’s tax fraud scheme

(JTA) — A San Diego attorney was sentenced in federal court for conspiring with the former rabbi of the Chabad of Poway to commit tax fraud, using coded language about wrapping tefillin to hide the ...
COLlive

Purim Joy and Mivtzoim Reach Rikers Island

Nearly 100 inmates join Megillah reading, tefillin and Seudas Purim at Rikers Island. On Purim day at Rikers Island, as ...
The Jewish Exponent

Since Oct. 7 at Chabad at Rowan, ‘Dozens of Jewish Boys Have Been Putting on Tefillin’

As a campus Chabad rabbi, Hersh Loschak often approaches students asking if they want to wrap tefillin. It’s a powerful Jewish ritual. It can also be completed in minutes. Yet after Oct. 7, Rowan ...
The Forward

His calling: Wrapping the Jewish rich and famous — and Jake Paul — in tefillin

It sounds like a Jewish improv setup: A Chabad guy asks Larry David to lay tefillin. But this was real life, and the Lubavitcher, a 21-year-old self-starter named Yossi Farro, was asking in front of a ...
Jewish Press

Word Prompt – TEFILLIN – JJ Eleff

The past 15 months have been the most meaningful and fulfilling of my life. Since October 7, we have been utilizing DansDeals to distribute tefillin to men who 1) commit to begin wrapping them every ...