September 2011 – Ben's Tallit Shop

Sun, Surf and…Tefillin

The beach may sound like an unexpected place to find Chabad activists wrapping tefillin on Jews who happen by, but that's exactly what took place at a recent surfing competition in Long Beach, California. As internationally acclaimed athletes rode the waves and fans crammed the beach, Rabbi Eli Goodman of the Bach Jewish Center...

Rav Moshe Feinstein on Women and Tallits

Although the issue of women and tallits has evolved over time, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein's remarks on the topic still reverberate to this day. In the 1970s feminist Orthodox Jewish women consulted with him to ask whether they could wear a tallit. The following is an excerpt from his responsum to them, dated 19 Elul...

Tallit Buyers Guide: Fabrics, Colors, Motifs

When I was growing up there was only one kind of tallit in shul: white with black stripes. As I grew older I began to see thin silver or gold stripes appear between the black stripes of the classic wool design, and the occasional tallit with blue stripes. Today, the prospective tallit buyer has an...