God is my co-pilot – or not

A flight from LaGuardia Airport in New York heading toward Kentucky was diverted to Philadelphia after the pilot decided a Jewish teen’s tefillin might have been a security threat.

New York Daily News has the story with a handy how-to video from Chabad on putting on tefillin.

This is not the first time such an incident has occurred.

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Remember the 2006 story about the Jewish man removed from an Air Canada Jazz plane for praying?

And also that year six imams kicked off the plane for praying.