kipah

I understand that my hope to liberate the kipah is a mite utopic, certain to face criticism and scorn and apathy, and overwhelmingly likely never to be embraced.

Menachem Kaiser: Why I (Sometimes) Don't Wear A Kipah* 2009

Purim is about hidden miracles -- a kipah is a great metaphor for something that is hidden.

JTA - Recent News 2009

But he made it all work, and the kipah is a keeper.

Jewish Exponent News 2009

As the Ashrei concludes a middle-aged man wearing tallit and kipah prayer shawl and yarmulke comes forward to introduce the prayer for Sukkot, the harvest holiday being celebrated this week.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

This works both ways, for the wearer and the observer are in tacit agreement of what the kipah means (i.e., not much).

Menachem Kaiser: Why I (Sometimes) Don't Wear A Kipah* 2009

Again, the kipah — and its material, no less! — has come to mean too much.

Menachem Kaiser: Why I (Sometimes) Don't Wear A Kipah* 2009

The reasons given are as varied as the kipah designs available.

Menachem Kaiser: Why I (Sometimes) Don't Wear A Kipah* 2009

Whatever the case, the underlying thread is not difficult to locate – these kipah-droppers no longer (permanently or momentarily) wish to identify with the fairly rigid Kipah Standard.

Menachem Kaiser: Why I (Sometimes) Don't Wear A Kipah* 2009

So why not allow the kipah-wearing the same sort of a-religious pass?

Menachem Kaiser: Why I (Sometimes) Don't Wear A Kipah* 2009

Secondly, and only slightly less significantly, a communal admission of the kipah's lowered meaning/symbolism would do much to alleviate the severe internal kipah divisions.

Menachem Kaiser: Why I (Sometimes) Don't Wear A Kipah* 2009