Do you have a kippah basket in your house? Or maybe it’s a box. If it’s anything like the ones I’ve seen it’s an eclectic mix of kippot, waiting for the errant Shabbat guest or those “mommy, where’s ...

Rabbi Levi Matusof, the Chabad emissary in Paris, dismissed a call by the leader of Marseille's Jewish community for Jews in the city to stop wearing kippot (skullcaps) to avoid being targeted by anti ...

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On Saturday night, at a South African nightclub called The Zone in Johannesburg’s Rosebank neighborhood, three Jewish teenagers wearing kippot were physically assaulted and verbally abused by three ...

'As long as there are knitted kippot, the throne [of God] is not whole. That’s Amalek. When will the throne be whole? When there is no knitted kippah. Are these people even Jews?' Rabbi Shalom Cohen, ...

A plan by Quebec’s government to ban “religious symbols,” including yarmulkes or kippot, among public sector workers has elicited worry from religious minorities in the Canadian province. The bill ...

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Goofy kippot Kudos to professor Gil Troy for his succinct and articulate defense of traditional Jewry (“Why do serious American Jews wear such goofy kippot?” September 21). To quote professor Troy: ...

European Jewish rabbis have petitioned the official world body that regulates and approves emojis, calling on them to add ideograms that represent the Jewish faith. In a letter to the Unicode ...

United Torah Judaism, an ultra-Orthodox party, released an election campaign video Tuesday night that seemingly compares people who convert to Judaism through non-Orthodox denominations to dogs ...