Tzitzit Project tzitzit worn by Chelsea Mandell, Liana Wertman, and Holly Howell (all images courtesy Tzitzit Project unless noted otherwise) Often referred to as tzitzit after the name of the fringes ...
The portion opens with, “Send for yourselves men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan" (Numbers 13:2), and ends with, ...
Since biblical times, male authorities have been debating the issue of whether women should sport tzitzit. Now, thanks to a freshman from Princeton University, a group of young women are — quite ...
JTA — Binya Kóatz remembers the first time she saw a woman wearing tzitzit. While attending Friday night services at a Jewish Renewal synagogue in Berkeley, California, she noticed the long ritual ...
A few months ago, I was at the Kotel with my family. When I was leaving the site, a woman stopped me. She grabbed one of the knotted white fringes dangling from under my shirt and, in Hebrew, ...
During his Munkacs sojourn, Rabbi Zvi Elimelech penned two short works. The first work appears to have been written soon after he arrived in Hungary, though it was only published in 1909 under the ...
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Binya Kóatz has been inspired to wear tzitzit every, day but she has been less inspired by the offerings available in online and brick-and-mortar Judaica shops. Binya Kóatz remembers the first time ...
The annual Boombamela festival was held this year on Nitzanim Beach in southern Israel near Ashkelon and Ashdod, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The three-day party, camp-out and street fair ...
Deputy mayors from around Israel who are assembled in Eilat, had planned a tour of the mystical red rock city of Petra in Jordan Tuesday morning, but at the border crossing, the Haredi delegates in ...
Two winning Israeli mixed martial arts fighters donned tzitzit, the Jewish ritual fringes, and kippahs following their victory in a competition in Israel. Elazar Tariku and Almog Shay are both ...