Honoring Rabbi Zvi Kogan: Tefillin Stations Established Across UAE

Honoring Rabbi Zvi Kogan: Tefillin Stations Established Across UAE

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Avi Batito still remembers the day he met Rabbi Zvi Kogan.It was late 2020, soon after the Abraham Accords, an agreement under the first Trump administration that normalized relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, were signed on the White House lawn. That event allowed the nascent local Jewish community to step out of the […]

‘Tzvi’s Tefillin’ to Bedeck Stands Across the Emirates

Avi Batito was thinking to honor the memory of his rabbi, Zvi Kogan, with a Torah, but shluchim had a better idea: 60 tefillin stands across the UAE. On Sunday, the campaign was launched as 60 men simultaneously put on the tefillin, before they were sent to their stations for all to use.

UAE Jewish Community Honors Slain Rabbi with Ambitious Tefillin Project

Rabbi Mendy Blau, who directs the Chabad House for Hebrew Speakers in Dubai, suggested an alternative to a new Sefer Torah that would more directly reflect Kogan’s personal mission. And so “Zvi’s Tefillin” was born.