Some Jews put on two head coverings, ordinarily a kippah covered by a hat, for Kabbalistic good reasons: the two coverings correspond to two ranges of intellect, or two ranges within the worry of God. The Kohen Gadol (High Priest) with the Temple in Jerusalem also utilised to put on a...
Rabbi David Levin is the founder of the Jewish Relationships Initiative, which aims to help seekers of meaning through Jewish Wisdom in human relationships and end-of-life challenges. He is also vice president of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia. The Board of Rabbis of Greater Philade...
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Warm and empathic, with graying beard, knitted kippah and tzitzit fringes peeking out, he could pass for a typical Orthodox rabbi. But there’s nothing typical about Yoel Glick. His intensity reveals a single-minded urgency: to renew Judaism as a spiritual path to God realization.read on ...
Kippah(KEE-puh) Yiddish for the skullcap head covering worn by Jews during services, and by some Jews at all times, more commonly known as a yarmulke (Hebrew). Kislev Kislev is the ninth month of the Jewish year, occurring in November/December. ...
but this time within the ruling party. I’m not interested in yet another knitted kippah in the Knesset, even if underneath that kippah is the name of Moshe Feiglin. The goal is to lay out a faith based alternative to lead Israel. This is a goal that cannot be accomplished without a ...
I must admit that I am completely taken with the 2007 photograph of the kippah-sporting Prince of Wales (Charles) and the Duchess of Cornwall (Camilla) lighting aHanukkiah. [Fact-checking the tabloid photo, we did uncover a series of AP photos of the couple lighting ahanukkiahon December ...
I wore a kippah, like the men and, by this time, like many of the women in my community. Not all Reform congregations were so progressive and, when I realized that a woman in a tallit was an unusual sight in other Reform synagogues, I refrained from wearing mine if I was visiting ...
However, the movieSelmadoes not tell this story. In fact, unless you looked carefully and unblinkingly during the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, you probably missed the man in thekippahoff to the side. The story told inSelma, is moving, but it is not a story that includes us....
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