This is the Forward’s coverage of the kippah or yarmulke, a skullcap worn by observant Jews.
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Praise Feds’ New ‘Kippah Rules’
Jewish groups across the religious spectrum praised Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines on accommodating religious attire in the workplace. The guidelines published Thursday are for “employers with at least 15 employees (including private sector, state, and local government employers), as well as employment agencies, unions, and federal government agencies.” These employers “must make exceptions to…
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Fast Forward Quebec Kippah Ban Would End Kosher Food Service at Montreal Jewish Hospital
Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital warned that complying with Quebec’s so-called Charter of Values means it will be forbidden from serving kosher food. In a 37-page brief presented at public hearings into the controversial legislation, which includes a ban on the wearing of religious headgear by public-sector employees, the hospital said it would be prohibited from…
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Fast Forward Israel Soccer League Ends Ban on Kippahs
Israel’s soccer association suspended its ban on wearing kippot for its minor leagues following protests by athletes and politicians. The regulation had been handed down by the Union of Soccer Referees in recent weeks, according to a report Friday by Army Radio. The union said it was hewing to the rules of the FIFA International…
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Opinion How To Defend Quebec’s Secularism Charter
The Charter of Values seeks to ban conspicuous religious symbols. / Government of Quebec Do you remember the Quebec government’s Charter of Values, the proposed legislation that would bar public workers from wearing conspicuous religious symbols — like the kippah, hijab or turban — on the job? Of course you do. Have you been biting…
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Opinion Protesting the Kippah Ban with a Quebec Flag
A proposed law that would ban all religious attire from the public sector has Jews in Quebec on edge. One rabbi has found a clever way to fight the dreaded kippah ban: he stamped his head covering with the blue-and-white Fleur-de-lys — the province’s flag. “I think protests are great,” Rabbi Yisroel Bernath said in…
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Fast Forward Montreal Candidate Sorry for ‘Remove Jewish’ Hospital Name Rant
A Quebec candidate says she regrets comments she made two years ago calling for an end to circumcision and “Jewish” to be removed from a Montreal hospital. The comments made by the ruling Parti Quebecois’ Tania Longpre, then a blogger for Journal de Montreal, in a Facebook exchange were made public this week. Along with…
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Fast Forward Montreal ‘Jewish’ Hospital Vows To Defy Public Ban on Kippahs
Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital says it plans to defy Quebec’s controversial Charter of Secular Values. The proposed law, known as Bill 60, is “patently discriminatory,” the hospital said in a statement Nov. 13. The bill, proposed by the governing Parti Quebecois to establish what it has called religious neutrality and gender equality, would ban all…
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Fast Forward 22% of European Jews Afraid To Wear Kippah, Study Reveals
A quarter of respondents in a major survey of Jews from nine European countries said they avoid visiting places and wearing symbols that identify them as Jews for fear of anti-Semitism. Fear of wearing a kippah and other identifiably Jewish items was especially strong in Sweden, where 49 percent of 800 respondents said they refrained…
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