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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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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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(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.