As the New York Jewish Week once explained, “His parents were presidents of the local B’nai B’rith and Hadassah, and he grew up kosher, in a home that knew tefillin and Yiddish. He was sent ...

“I finally find a Jew in an alleyway, ask him if he wants to do tefillin. He agrees, we do tefillin together, take a picture,” Farro said in an interview, using the Hebrew word for the small ...