Topic: Kippah-walk

March 11, 2015
10:53 am

A man wears a yarmulke as he takes part in a silent march to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogroms, Nov. 9, 2013 in Berlin. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images/JTA)

Europe’s incognito yarmulke journalists

Amid growing anti-Semitism, undercover kippah-wearing reporters have been taking to the streets to document abuse

By Gabe Friedman

January 24, 2015
9:50 pm

A screen capture of Swedish reporter Peter Ljunggren speaking with a man espousing anti-Semitic views in the documentary film "Jewish hatred in Malmo." (screen capture: YouTube)

Kippa-wearing Swedish reporter assaulted in Malmo

Journalist cursed at, hit while wearing skull cap, Jewish star in streets of heavily Muslim city

By JTA

September 13, 2012
6:45 pm

Berlin residents wear kippot in solidarity with a local rabbi who was brutally attacked in August (photo credit: AP/Michael Gottschalk)

German police to investigate Jewish officer who wore kippa while in uniform

Haifa-born Tuvia Schlesinger, who has been serving in the Berlin police for 32 years, said to have violated the force’s neutrality rules in showing solidarity with the local Jewish community

By Raphael Ahren

August 28, 2012
5:31 pm

From Sweden with hatred

Many might regard it as an indictment of a society when citizens feel the need to parade in the streets just to claim their right to exist

By Ilya Meyer

August 17, 2012
11:23 pm

An illustrative photo of the Malmö Synagogue in Sweden. (photo credit: CC BY-SA jorchr, Wikimedia)

Swedish solidarity ‘kippah walk’ unites Jews, non-Jews

Responding to increase in anti-Semitic incidents, Jews and non-Jews will march with heads covered and held high in Malmö