Were I to start wearing a kippah in public, it would be for one reason, and for one reason only: to be defiant. That is not the reason for the kippah. It is not to identify the haters.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, was part of a delegation that was about one-third of the way through a tour of Diriyah, a town in the Riyadh ...

Wearing a kippah should not be a symbol of allegiance to a particular sect of Judaism, but a symbol of solidarity with one of the most historically oppressed people on earth. Today, I feel more ...

An unidentified woman stole the kippah of a rabbi whom she threatened with a knife on a street in the Austrian capital of Vienna, police said.. The woman fled the scene of Thursday’s incident in ...

In biblical times, only the high priest was required to don a head covering — kippah, or dome, in Hebrew — when performing his duties in the Temple in Jerusalem. Historically, ...

German Jews have been warned by a leading government official not to wear traditional kippahs in all public settings following a rise in anti-Semitic attacks across the country.

It seems the deep reason for the minhag of the kippah being so widely accepted among Jews is that it serves as a substitute for tefillin.For from the Torah, it is a mitzvah to wear tefillin ...

In her defense, her position on the wearing of religious symbols doesn’t only include the kippah. She is also in favor of banning the hijab and veils. France did pass a law in 2011 to ban the ...

Sometimes, I actually wear a kippah. Like on Shabbat, typically all of Friday evening and Saturday morning until after lunch. Sometimes, I’ll wear it for the entire day. Always, always in ...

German newspaper Bild published a cut-out kippah skullcap on its front page Monday, urging readers to show their solidarity with the country’s Jewish community in the face of rising anti-Semitism.

Give Me the Biggest Kippah You Can Find. Jews shouldn’t shrink from their religious identity in the face of Hamas’s attacks. By . Dovid Efune. Share. Resize. Listen (2 min) ...

An 18-year-old Jewish man wearing a kippah in Cologne, Germany, was beaten by a group of 10 attackers in a public green space and taken to the hospital with a broken nose and cheekbone.