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[arib]

Multiple suicide bombings in Israel, reports of a synagogue in France being torched by a car driving through the front...

I've been getting glares today, mostly when I was in Harvard Square and on the Red Line, and I'm pretty sure it's because of my yarmulke.

I feel like a marked man...

*sigh*

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[gingicat]

My parents live in an NYC apartment building with a superintendent, and have become friendly with him and his family. They are Egyptian; a few years back, Wafaa, the wife, decided to go on the hajj, after which she began wearing a veil (I forget the Arabic name for it; it's not a burqa, it's a headscarf thing).

After September 11, she had to remove the veil because people judged her by it. To wear it again, she'll have to go on the hajj again. It was a badge of pride.

Please don't take off your yarmulke, Ari. Heck, I might start wearing a snood, even though I'm not Orthodox and Wolf and I aren't married yet. People should not judge the many by the actions of a few.

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[arib.livejournal.com]

(I forget the Arabic name for it; it's not a burqa, it's a headscarf thing)

Hijab, I think...

Please don't take off your yarmulke, Ari.

Never planned on taking it off, or wearing a hat over it, either. I actually turned down a job a few months because, among other things, they wouldn't let me wear it at work.(They also expected me to do things that, while legal, I considered highly unethical.)

I'm proud to wear a kippah, and I never plan to take it off for anyone.

*hugs*

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

People are people, for good or bad.

[rosefox]

*big hugs*

There are still some who don't judge the many by the actions of the few. Take heart, dear one--and take care, too, until this latest wave of madness has washed past.

"Next year in Jerusalem" wasn't something any of us could bring ourselves to say, this year. We just couldn't believe that Jerusalem could be safe for anyone in a year's time. I hope we're proven wrong.

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[arib.livejournal.com]

"Next year in Jerusalem" wasn't something any of us could bring ourselves to say, this year. We just couldn't believe that Jerusalem could be safe for anyone in a year's time. I hope we're proven wrong.

Sounds to me like a good reason to say it. To me, Jerusalem, and the concepts it embodies aren't something I'd turn my back on when times get tough. Yes, the situation there is bleak, but you need to hope for the best, y'know?

My Mom's going there in two months to lecture at the Hadassah hospitals, she's not worried, neither am I.

[rosefox]

We're not turning our backs on it, but... Passover in Jerusalem isn't really something my family has ever aimed for. My mother understands and appreciates that I want to go there someday, but it isn't something I'm likely to do with her; she's already been and doesn't feel a need to go again. My brother and stepfather couldn't care less. My grandmother used to say "Next year in Paris" because we all felt we'd much rather go there. *) So it isn't something we'd generally say seriously, and we just couldn't joke about it this year.