Posts Tagged: yarmulke

Two Arrested in Cologne, Germany for ‘Cowardly’ Group Attack on Jewish Teen Wearing Kippah
Police in the German city of Cologne detained two men suspected of seriously injuring a Jewish 18-year-old on Friday night, in a group assault that...

Are Niqabs and Kippot Equally Threatening?
The Southern Poverty Law Center's Heidi Beirich has distributed a standardized reply to the avalanche of protests (including a particularly eloquent one by National Review) against its wretched Field...

Italian Newspaper Distributes Kippot on Holocaust Remembrance Day in Show of Solidarity With European Jews
An Italian newspaper distributed white yarmulkes with its daily edition on Wednesday as a show of solidarity with Jewish communities in Europe on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. "We intended it as...

Social Media Solidarity Campaign Calls on All French Citizens to Wear Yarmulkes
A campaign was launched in France calling on all citizens to don the Jewish skullcap this Friday, after the Marseilles chief rabbi urged fellow residents to avoid wearing kippot, out of...

Philo-Semite Becomes a Jew for a Week to Experience Anti-Semitism Firsthand
As reports of the 'Global Pogrom' around the world reflect the latent anti-Semitism brought out by Israel's battle to disarm Hamas in Gaza, one non-Jewish...

Faceless With a Kippah (PHOTO BLOG)
There is considerable debate among the Halachic authorities as to whether or not wearing a kippah is required by law. Jewish law dictates that a man is required...

Rising Jewish Basketball Star Sports Branded Kippah
Aaron Liberman, a former high school basketball star and current walk-on at Northwestern University, was recently spotted in an Under Armour branded kippah. The unique...

The Butchering of 8-Year-Old Leibby Kletsky
There are three reasons Hassidic Jews live together in tight-knit and often insular communities. The first is shared values. The second, a strong support network...