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Tefillin Meet Scores Touchdown on Super Bowl Sunday Morning February 6, 2007 5:00 am (Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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Some Jews were wrapped up in more than football on Super Bowl Sunday.
For the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs, an association of 270 Conservative synagogue groups, America’s favorite secular holiday was a perfect opportunity to draw attention to the often overlooked mitzvah of tefillin.
“It’s a fabulous programming day,” said Rabbi Charles Simon, the organization’s executive director. “In America, nobody does anything on Super Bowl Sunday.”
Many hours before the start of the pro football championship game, more than 180 Conservative synagogues around the world participated in the seventh World Wide Wrap on Sunday morning.