Comments on: Kippot Serugot?

By: Huw

Huw — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:02:10 +0000

B.BarNavi - thanks for the info. You provided enough to “fill in the gaps”. I had assumed the knitted ones were more casual as well.

Thanks.

By: B.BarNavi

B.BarNavi — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:51:01 +0000

Depends on what you mean by “religious”. In Israel, the knit kippot are used by “religious” Zionists (yishuvniks), while cloth kippot, as long as they are black, are associated with the ultra-”religious”.
In the US, knit kippot are more “casual”, and those who wear kippot casually on a day-to-day basis tend to be more “religious”, is all.
I myself prefer leather/suede.

By: Avi aka TikkunGer

Avi aka TikkunGer — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:33:00 +0000

Sorry, I don’t know.

By: Huw

Huw — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:57:28 +0000

LOL. I think the fair trade thing is pretty cool: and they have very nice mezuzah cases!

Still… any clue about why Knitted Kippot are for the conservatively religious?

By: Avi aka TikkunGer

Avi aka TikkunGer — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:13:34 +0000

Ummmmm, more like the cheap ass, Jewish thing. Well at least in terms of, how I came to be in possession of one. Yankel, appropriated it at some swanky bar/bat mitzvah (I think Pee Wee Herman aka Paul Rubin was there). I doubt Yankel new jack about the fair trade thing! I sure as heck didn’t until your post!

By: Huw

Huw — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:34:45 +0000

It’s that whole LA thing. Y’all are just too PC for me.

By: Avi aka TikkunGer

Avi aka TikkunGer — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:30:43 +0000

Well slap me silly! I think Yankel gave me one those Fair Trade Jew hats!