Lubavitcher Dovi Berger randomly approached a person and asked if he would like to put on Tefillin. Little did he know that the man he asked was an actor in middle of a film. The actor agreed to put on Tefillin and the producers even decided to add it to the movie • Watch

Israeli Justice Minister Amir Ohana was seen putting on Tefillin earlier today, Friday, at the Tefillin booth in Petach Tikvah, directed by Rabbis Eliezer Vaisfiche and Assaf Alperin.

One of the most popular sites in Jerusalem is the kever of Dovid HaMelech, located on Har Tzion in the Old City. Jews are mispallel at the tziyun regularly, and Christians come to conduct tours and ceremonies – both out of respect for Dovid HaMelech, which is holy to everyone, and because they have an AVoda Zara myth about the location • Full Story

A week ago, I met Bill outside the elevator just before Shabbos and asked him if he had any Jewish background, to which he replied that his grandparents were Jewish but converted to escape persecution during world war two. Written by Eliezer Tewel • Full Story

Many people, both in the Chassidic community and beyond, don Rabbeinu Tam’s Tefillin after having donned Rashi Tefillin when davening Shacharis. Some, however, believe that this is a mere “Minhag” (custom) or Kabbalistic stringency and is not halachically mandated • Full Story

To honor the 11 victims of the Pittsburgh shooting, two young photographers, Avraham Edery, 21, and Daniel Schechter, 25, put on tefillin with 11 Jews at Washington Square Park in Manhattan on Monday, October 29. Each act was commemorated by reciting one of the victims names and immortalized on film • Watch

Dr. Jack Rubinstein, a cardiologist in Cincinnati, excited the world with his newly-released research on the powerful physical benefits of putting on Tefillin. His clinical research, done according to all scientific rules, shows that putting on Tefillin every day can help a person prevent a heart-attack • Full Story, Photos

A pilot study led by researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine suggests Jewish men who practice wearing tefillin, which involves the tight wrapping of an arm with leather banding as part of daily prayer, may receive cardiovascular health benefits • Full Article

Over the past month students of Oholei Menachem under Chabad of Auberville, France, had special summer activities, where they enjoyed special classes and put on Tefillin. The special program was in memory of Menachem Mendel Brochshtat, OB”M • Photos

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat gave instructions Friday to void a $124 (450 NIS) fine slapped on a Chassidic Jew – a member of the Chabad stream – who encouraged people to lay Tefillin near the Jerusalem Bus Station • Full Story

Reb Zalman Chanin, Menahel of Vaad L’hafatzas Sichos and Kehot, was seen earlier today at JFK airport putting on Tefillin with a fellow Yid, during his flight delay.

A sad and embarrassing incident occurred this morning at Ben-Gurion Airport when a Lubavitcher Chasid asked a Jew to put on Tefillin but was verbally assaulted by a woman who asked him to do so elsewhere • Watch

Thousands of Jews, primarily young ones, came this week to Poland for the ‘March of the Living’, remembering the 6 million Jews who perished in the Nazi concentration camps. A number of Shluchim were there to help Jews put on Tefillin in memory of those who are no longer with us. Photos by Meir Alfasi • Photos

A member of the Tel Aviv city councilman blasted Chabad emissaries in a Facebook post, after he was asked whether he wanted to put on Tefillin. For many years, Chabad emissaries have set up stands all over Israel, as well as in many other countries, offering to help Jewish men put on Tefillin • Full Story

In honor of Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz’s 46h birthday this Shabbos, a campaign was launched to lay Tefillin with 4,600 Jews around the world. After you put on the Tefillin, send a picture with the hashtag #TefillinForYitzi • Full Details, Photos

Municipal inspectors on Erev Shabbos Parshas Noach shut down a Chabad Tefillin booth in Ramat Aviv, threatening failure to close would result in a fine. The Shliach, Rabbi Yehuda Lipsh, working the booth was told since he did not have a permit, he would have to shut it down or receive a fine • Full Story

A special Farbrengen took place in Montreal for the community and Bochurim celebrating fifty years of Mivtza Tefillin, in conjunction with the celebration of 120 years of Tomchei T’mimim • Photos

A Herzliya municipal supervisor on Friday morning fined a Lubavitcher for offering to help passersby put on Tefillin, he was standing on Herzliya’s Sokolov street when a municipal supervisor approached him and demanded the Lubavitcher immediately take down the stand and cease his activities • Full Story

A ChabadInfo.com viewer sent in a picture of Horav Yosef Yeshaya Braun, member of the Badatz of Crown Heights, putting Tefillin on a Yid on the streets of New York.

On Friday, the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, known as ‘RAGBRAI’, which is a non-competitive bicycle ride organized by The Des Moines Register, cycled through Postville. Many cyclists from across the United States and numerous foreign countries came to join in this seven day annual bicycle ride.  • Full Story, Photos

A group of Jewish students traveling with their Shliach to visit Eretz Yisroel were spotted in Yerushalayim helping other Jews put on Tefillin, actualizing the Rebbe’s message “if one knows Alef he should teach Alef.”

It was at the grand Sheva Brachos celebration of Menachem Mendel and Chana Tzivia Lazar, when the groom’s father, Rabbi Berl Lazar, announced the start of a new initiative: The Tefillin Bank • Full Story, Photos

R’ Shmuel Zalmanov from Montreal, shares with ChabadInfo.com a few photos of Mivtza Tefillin in the early years. He is publicizing these photos in connection with this year being fifty years since the Rebbe MH”M started the Tefillin campaign • More Photos

Earlier today, Friday, as people around the word are remembering the holocaust, a special event took place in Kharkov, Ukraine. A holocaust survivor put on Tefillin for the first time in his life, at the age of 92 • Additional Photo