kippah
Noun
Meaning
kippah (plural kippot or kippahs or kippoth)
The cloth skullcap or yarmulke traditionally worn by male Jews.
Synonyms
Examples
Attacker who beat Arab-Israeli man wearing a kippah charged with 'causing bodily harm and slander' for anti-Semitic assault.
But two days after the election of Donald Trump, I put on a kippah.
I thought it was more dangerous to walk the streets of Paris with my kippah on than the streets of Baku."
The German daily Tagesspiegel, which has a circulation of about 100,000, printed a kippah in Wednesday’s paper that readers could cut out and wear to the rallies.
The victim, who was hit with a belt, said he was a non-Jew from Haifa and had donned the kippah to prove to another friend that Berlin is not as anti-Semitic as rumor would have it.
Traditionally, the upsherin marks when, at the age of 3, a boy officially begins his Torah education and starts to wear a kippah and tzitzit.