It’s not unusual to see Chabadniks wrapping tefillin around men’s arms, and reciting and explaining the blessings, but it’s less familiar when the setting is prison and the pupils are convicts.
The Hasidic movement’s “capital city” near Tel Aviv is home to 6,000 Chabadniks — and a replica of the 770 brownstone. KFAR CHABAD, Israel (JTA) — In an otherwise deserted field at the ...