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the people that you meet when you’re walking on the street, part 2

I’m not up on my Talmudic law, but did something change recently and woman are wearing yarmulkes?

I rode up in the elevator with a woman who had a yarmulke clipped to the top of her head.

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4 Responses to “the people that you meet when you’re walking on the street, part 2”

  1. itsy Says:
    February 20th, 2004 at 3:10 pm

    Heh. Well, I went to a BatMitzvah once, and there were yarmulkes on a table for guests…we (girls) put one on since we thought we were supposed to. A sweet old lady informed us that we only were supposed to if we were widows. That may explain what you saw?

  2. stessa Says:
    February 23rd, 2004 at 6:56 am

    Yes. But the change in custom has been happening over the last 20 or so years. Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist women routinely wear a yarmulke (and tallis) at synagogue. But it’s more unusual for an American Jew who isn’t Orthodox to wear a yarmulke in public life. I bet the woman you saw was probably a rabbinical or cantorial student.

  3. wendy the tool Says:
    February 23rd, 2004 at 12:22 pm

    Wow, I’m a winner. I’ve read this post about three times, trying to figure out what a yar-mulk is.

    The owner of the Seattle Supersonicahs celebrates Chanukah, so I thought it would have had to be spelled Yamika.

  4. ericalynn Says:
    February 23rd, 2004 at 11:16 pm

    you sure it was a woman? :)

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