College students design tefillin for women

From JPost.com

Shenkar College’s Concoction Week takes place this week; all third year students from both the college’s faculties of design and engineering are participating in a range of workshops.

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Students from the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Ramat Gan have created tefillin for women as part of a workshop called The Manipulative Past in the institute’s third annual Concoction Week taking place this week.

Three students – Tut Sagi, a student in the college’s department for multidisciplinary art, Avior Tzvi of the department of plastics engineering, and Valeria Simhovitz from the department of design and fashion – collaborated on the project.

Tefillin are a set of two black boxes made of hardened leather which in Jewish law are supposed to be worn by Jewish men every day during the morning prayer service.

The requirement for the workshop was to take a handmade item from ancient technology, games or tradition and to transform it into something of the present or future. Most of the participants chose to recreate an ancient game, piece of jewelry or form of technological development, from the field of games, but Sagi, Tzvi and Simhovitz decided to take something from the realm of tradition, “something that has existed for many years and is still very relevant today.”

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