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Don't Be Fooled by The Little Knit Cap: Yes, I'm Jewish. And yes, I speak...
Magazine article from: Newsweek September 18, 2000 700+ words ...meeting them that they will ask about the yarmulke I wear on my head. Most recently, I...woman asked me if she could inspect my yarmulke closer. The strangest incident occurred...get those things"--he nodded to my yarmulke--"in leather?" I stammered... |
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CAMPAIGN YARMULKE IS A HEAD IN THE POLLS
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) JOAN VERDON, Staff Writer September 28, 2000 700+ words ...County, NJ) 09-28-2000 CAMPAIGN YARMULKE IS A HEAD IN THE POLLS By JOAN VERDON...heart on your head by covering it with a yarmulke touting the first national ticket to...versions -- a $14.95 hand-painted yarmulke decorated with American flags and the... |
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CALIFORNIA MAILMAN WINS RIGHT TO WEAR YARMULKE ON ROUNDS
News Wire article from: Jewish Telegraphic Agency Tom Tugend January 5, 1993 700+ words ...CALIFORNIA MAILMAN WINS RIGHT TO WEAR YARMULKE ON ROUNDS. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4 (JTA...year battle to make his rounds wearing a yarmulke, without covering it with a regulation...forcing Howard Singer to put a cap over the yarmulke violated civil rights laws prohibiting... |
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Vic: Jewish man says he will wear yarmulke despite attack
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia) June 1, 2007 700+ words ...2007 Vic: Jewish man says he will wear yarmulke despite attack By Jeff Turnbull MELBOURNE...are on the rise after a man wearing a yarmulke was assaulted and abused by a gang on...October in which a man also wearing a yarmulke was attacked, abused and punched in... |
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Jews and Muslims Are Uneasy Allies In Yarmulke Case
Newspaper article from: Forward Cattan, Nacha July 12, 2002 700+ words ...clerical duties for refusing to remove his yarmulke. Davidson is again allowed to wear his yarmulke. Deputy Sheriff Crystal Clark, a Muslim...hazard. "We supported the right on the yarmulke. We did not take a position on the hijab... |
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'I ask Matthew why he's wearing a black yarmulke. He says he doesn't have a...
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Rebecca Tyrrel May 5, 2008 700+ words ...fact what he was wearing was a black yarmulke, or skullcap, and when I asked him...proper answer as to why he was wearing a yarmulke and he said: "It is because I am in...Matthew looked morose, tweaked his yarmulke and went back to his shed. Noel phoned... |
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Religious freedom dealt a blow by high court's yarmulke ruling
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Alan Dershowitz April 6, 1986 700+ words ...the right to wear an "unobtrusive" yarmulke (a small religious skullcap) while...Perhaps the most troubling aspect of the yarmulke decision is that its author (and several...status. The most immediate impact of the yarmulke decision will be to discourage Orthodox... |
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W IS FOR YARMULKE
Newspaper article from: Evansville Courier & Press December 16, 2006 700+ words Yarmulke is the name for the head covering worn...respect to cover one's head, so wearing a yarmulke is a way of showing respect to God. Another...wearer that God is always above him. Yarmulke is a Yiddish word that comes from the... |
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Moving day prompts great yarmulke dilemma
Newspaper article from: Cleveland Jewish News Marsh, Jerry November 11, 2005 700+ words ...many of them inscribed n a veritable yarmulke record of our social life over the decades...t it foreboding enough that the word yarmulke (kipa in Hebrew) itself is derived...very difficult to casually discard a yarmulke. Okay, here?s the plan. The standard... |
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Jelvis, Schmelvis! Don't Step on My Blue Suede Yarmulke.
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA) Nielsen, Jason August 22, 2002 700+ words ...when I would walk the streets with my yarmulke and the Jewish star on the back, there...Lonesome Tonight") and "Blue Suede Yarmulke" ("Blue Suede Shoes"), he finds...Star of David, and as a child carried a yarmulke in his right pants pocket as a good luck... |
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Yarmulke
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Yarmulke (Yid., etym. uncertain; the tradition that it is a corruption of the...x2019; is unlikely). Skull cap worn by Orthodox Jewish men. The yarmulke is worn by the observant at all times as a sign of humility before God... |
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yarmulke
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English yar·mul·ke / ˈyämə(l)kə / (also yar·mul·ka ) • n. a skullcap worn in public by Orthodox Jewish men or during prayer by other Jewish men. yarmulke |
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Head, covering of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...Orthodox men wear at least a skull cap (Heb., kippah ; Yid., yarmulke ) at all times; Conservative Jews cover their heads for prayer...have begun as a deliberate contrast to gentile practices (see YARMULKE ), but it is presumably a matter of courtesy. In biblical... |
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Kippah
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Kippah: see HEAD, COVERING OF ( JUDAISM ); YARMULKE . |
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Habit, religious
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...as any other man in the assembly: tallit (prayer shawl with zitzit , tassels), tefillin (phylacteries), and kippah or yarmulke (skull-cap). Among Sikhs, formal dress requirements apply only to amritdhārī Sikhs (see FIVE KS... |
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