Kippah-wearing teen assaulted in Paris suburb "You, the Jew, wait for us, wait for us," the perpetrators allegedly said. Oct. 15, 2024
The art of the haberdasher: In St. Louis, that means Levine’s “Hats are one of those unique fashion items where they don’t go out of style,” said Lance Levine. “I was watching ‘The Godfather’ the other night, and I thought, ‘We still have those same hats!’” Bill Motchan March 20, 2024
Kippah ‘not a political statement,’ says rabbi told to go bareheaded on official Saudi visit “I didn’t take off my kippah for the month I was in the Soviet Union, and I’m sure not going to do it there,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper told JNS. Mike Wagenheim March 14, 2024
Jewish great awakening follows Oct. 7 terror attacks “In a world that’s so much darker, with so much evil, we have to do more good to outweigh it,” said comedian Eli Lebowicz, who thinks 30 to 40 people are donning tefillin regularly upon his suggestion. Melissa Langsam Braunstein Nov. 29, 2023
Berlin airport security asks Chabad rabbi to remove yarmulke Yehuda Teichtal later confirmed with the head of the German police that no such policy was in place. Aug. 24, 2023
Vancouver police add ‘kipah’-wearing to department employment guidelines It had no official guidance, even though the department’s “uniform regulations allow candidates who wear the Sikh turban and the Muslim hijab to be hired as police officers.” June 3, 2022
On visible and invisible Jews We all know that raw prejudice among Jews against those who are visibly Jewish—that they are loud, rude, unwashed, contemptuous towards outsiders and all the rest of that baggage—is our community’s dirty secret. Ben Cohen Sept. 24, 2021
Hamburg public prosecutor blames mental illness for attack on Jewish student AJC Berlin said on Twitter that it demands Hamburg prosecutors “not to belittle anti-Semitism & to depoliticize acts of violence.” Feb. 23, 2021
Jewish family in Texas converts kipahs to face masks for homeless community The Jason family has already collected nearly 700 from donations, and their synagogue has been gathering more to use. April 29, 2020
