In Each Generation…

By Nolan Lebovitz
Published on March 21, 2013

Bar-Ilan student kicked out of class for not wearing yarmulke

Published on December 12, 2012

A Bar-Ilan University Talmud professor kicked a male student out of his class for not wearing a yarmulke.

Md. student asked to defend wearing kippah

Published on February 2, 2012

A Jewish student at a Maryland high school was asked to prove that he wore a yarmulke for religious reasons.

Head games: Jordanians tell Israelis to keep out kipot

Published on October 28, 2010

Israelis have been asked to leave their yarmulkes at the border when entering Jordan, an Israeli news site reported.

Customs Kippah

By Joel Chasnoff
Published on June 3, 2009

You’re Fired!

By Raphi Salem
Published on October 28, 2004

From the beginning, even before it was famous, "The Apprentice," Donald Trump's reality TV show, had piqued my interest -- but not enough to make a standing engagement with my TV set whenever it was on.

Ask the Rabbi

By Michael Aushenker
Published on November 1, 2001

It's late on Sunday evening at KFI 640 AM's &'9;Koreatown station, and within the confines of an overly bright fluorescent-lit radio booth, a tall man with Phil Donahue-white hair and a scraggly reddish beard worthy of the Norse god Thor sits alone at the mike.

Dressed in dependable Chabad wear -- white dress shirt, black slacks, yarmulke and tzizit hanging out -- Rabbi Chaim Mentz is an unexpected voice, booming out of the radio in a heavy Brooklyn accent.

"You got questions, I got answers!" Mentz enthuses in a gravelly voice.

Greatness

By Rabbi Elazar Muskin
Published on November 2, 2000

In most big cities in the United States, horse-and-buggy rides are offered as tourist attractions. It is therefore not shocking to find them lined up in Philadelphia, right near Constitution Hall and the Liberty Bell.