Kippah

Kippah-wearing bodyguard steals spotlight as Pete Hegseth begins role as US Def.-Sec.

Social media users commented that they were surprised to see a kippah-wearing security guard, some saying they had never before seen it in America. 

 Hegseth arrived at the Pentagon on Monday and spoke to the press before entering the building with Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
 Shai Albrecht and her son, Aryeh

'Jews are going to die': Kippah knocked off head of 11-year-old son of Jewish activist

 KIPPOT ARE on display at the Mahaneh Yehuda market in Jerusalem. ‘I and many others like me no longer feel comfortable wearing the knitted kippah, long the emblem of modern Orthodox Zionism, in public,’ says the writer.

'I want to start wearing a kippah': 13-year-old former hostage on spiritual awakening after release

 ‘FOR NOW, in America, I only wear a baseball hat,’ says the writer.

It's still not time to wear a kippah in public in the Diaspora - opinion


When dealing with our Saudi friends, show a little tact - opinion

One of the first things anyone who has traveled to an Arab country learns is that one of the worst social faux pas you can make is to offend your host.

 THE FLAG of Saudi Arabia flies at the Saudi Embassy in Washington.

Saudi Arabia says incident involving rabbi's kippah was 'unfortunate'

Saudi Arabia responds to religious freedom delegation cut short in Saudi Arabia as co-chair refuses to remove kippah in public

 SAUDI AMBASSADOR to Washington Princess Reema Bandar Al Saud has introduced new terminology stating that Saudi Arabia wants integration with Israel. These expressions cannot be ignored, says the writer.

US religious freedom commission leaves Saudi Arabia after rabbi co-chair told to remove kippah

Cooper, an Orthodox rabbi and the director of global social action for the Simon Wiesenthal Center advocacy group, “politely” refused the request with the backing of US embassy staff.

 THE FLAG of Saudi Arabia flies at the Saudi Embassy in Washington.

Coexisting: Jews, like Maccabees, can serve spiritual and physical worlds - opinion

In Judaism, this ability not only coexists but is actually central to our identities: Religion and Zionism, work and Torah study, the people of Israel with the Jews of the Diaspora.

 SOLDIERS TAKE a break from their military service to pray.

Why I'm glad I left my kippah on in Bulgaria - opinion

It’s sad that we still live in a world where any of us has to worry about being marked in this way but the reality will only change if we stop hiding who we are.

 THE WRITER performs the circumcision at the ceremony in Sofia.

Should your child wear a kippah in public? - opinion

The more our children and we retreat, antisemites will smell that fear and advance to further bully and intimidate.

 THE WRITER participates in a march on the Brooklyn Bridge in January 2020, which was organized in response to rising antisemitism in New York and New Jersey.

No one has a monopoly over Judaism - editorial

Saying that a political side “forgot what it is to be Jews” is utterly reprehensible.

UTJ MK Yaakov Litzman together with UTJ MK Moshe Gafni and Shas head Aryeh Deri gives during a press statement at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, June 8, 2021.

French interior min. insists on right of public religious dress

Darmanin insisted that religious dress be allowed in public during dedication of restored graves vandalized in antisemitic attack in 2015.

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin places a stone on a recently restored gravestone

Man wearing kippah attacked by a group of 10 in Cologne, Germany

Police arrested two suspects in what they are deeming an antisemitic hate crime. The attack was captured on police surveillance video.

A MAN wearing a kippa waits for the start of a demonstration against antisemitism at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate in 2014

How Naftali Bennett’s kippah stays on his bald head and why it matters

Naftali Bennett, who took office this week, is the first prime minister in Israel's history to regularly wear a kippah. He’s also bald, which makes it a challenge to stay on.

MK NAFTALI BENNETT in the Knesset – he spoiled it all.

Why did Trump's lawyer, David Schoen, keep putting his hand on his head?

Was the fact that he covered his head while drinking also because he is an Orthodox Jew?

Trump's impeachment lawyer David Schoen covering his hand with his head before drinking water