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• n  a skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer)

• Following Jewish tradition, Obama donned a yarmulke and went to the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, where shortly before dawn on Thursday he stuffed his prayer into a crevice .
• He was wearing a reserve captain's olive-green army uniform and a yarmulke and carrying a military-issue Galil assault rifle.
• Though his father worked for the New York City Board of Education, the young Goldstein, with his side curls and yarmulke, attended school at a yeshiva.

• yarmulka
• yarmelke

News & Articles

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• Business advice — and kosher food — are on the menu at first biz conference for Hasidim
  CEO roundtables. Social media marketing sessions. Afternoon prayers? Bring your black yarmulke and your business cards to LTB Business Summit 2013, a business conference specifically tailored to the needs of ultra-Orthodox Jews.
  June 10, 2013 - New York Daily News

Quotes

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• Ravi Kahlon in Canada.com
  This is no different than wearing a cross on your chest or a Jewish yarmulke during the opening ceremonies, which nobody would have any problem with,said Kahlon, an RBC mortgage specialist, and outstanding forward appearing in his second...
• Jacques Chirac in Bloomberg
  The Muslim veil -- whatever name we give it -- the yarmulke and a crucifix of manifestly excessive dimensions have no place in the sphere of state schools,Chirac said in a speech televised on French news channel LCI. "State schools have to...
• Jason Bedrick in Concord Monitor
  The Jewish faith has outward signs of being Jewish to improve your behavior,Bedrick said. "If I walk in with a beard and yarmulke, I represent something. . . . I need to constantly study to know what I'm talking about, to avoid foul...