Like many traditional Jewish brides, Dora Piperno wanted to give her future husband a tallit — a Jewish prayer shawl — as a wedding gift. With one difference: She wanted to give him a tallit made of ...

Republican candidate Donald Trump’s donning a Jewish prayer shawl on Saturday during a visit to a Detroit black church has left some members of the American Jewish community scratching their heads, ...

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Prayer shawls, or tallitot, have long been an important part of Jewish ritual tradition. Although the date of their first appearance is unknown, Torah dictates that we wear fringes (tzitzit) on the ...

JTA — Apparently, everything old is new again — again. In recent months, fast fashion retailers Old Navy and H&M both made waves on social media by selling items that looked remarkably like a tallit, ...

For more than 30 years, Light has been capturing the essence of people and placing it on their shoulders. Her company Holy Thread Designs creates intricate prayer shawls for men and women with ...

Funny how it takes a kerfuffle to get people thinking about what they wear, especially within the precincts of the sanctuary. In the wake of Donald Trump’s donning a prayer shawl, or tallit, while ...

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(JTA) — Donald Trump was gifted a traditional Jewish prayer shawl by a pastor during a visit to a black church in Detroit. Bishop Wayne Jackson of the Great Faith Ministries in Detroit draped the ...

In a video shot by a college student, the man does not identify himself as Jewish while being arrested by police after he got off the Delta Air Lines flight from Washington-DC to Atlanta. (JTA) — A ...