The most common hat for men in the synagogue is a small round cap called a yarmulke or a kippah, but an ordinary homburg or street hat will be accepted. |
On Sunday, haredim in the Mea Shearim neighborhood punched and spat on a religious soldier wearing a knitted kippah. |
It is then that he officially begins his Torah education, and starts to wear a kippah and tzitzit. |
One worshipper, wearing rings on his fingers and a jean jacket, thumbs through a siddur, a kippah precariously perched on his mass of untamed curls. |
He can still wear his kippah underneath, but to wear a cap so no one knows. |
In North America there appears to have been a rise in random acts of vandalism, beatings, hate mail, hostile remarks, kippah snatching, graffiti, etc. |