(JTA) — Part of a blood-stained prayer shawl from a 1940 Yom Kippur pogrom ... floor of a structure that used to be part of the Jewish ghetto of the central Polish city, Israel’s Channel ...

The tallith, also known as the prayer shawl, is a shawl worn traditionally by Jewish men. It is worn: at morning prayer services at festivals on the Sabbath The reason for wearing the tallith is ...

We had never traveled together, but we were inspired by a powerful idea: bringing back to Poland a beautiful family heirloom — a Jewish prayer shawl, or tallis, that one of our ancestors brought ...

Four times for wearing a prayer shawl at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, one of the holiest places in the Jewish faith, and once for smuggling a Torah scroll into the sacred site.