Kippah-Wearing Student Told to Prove Religion
The principal at Northwood High School told Patch that “students are asked for verification when their religious headwear is not traditional headwear that we are accustomed to seeing.”
UPDATE: Northwood High School has changed its headwear policy. Read the story on Patch. ------------------------------------------------------- The parents of a Jewish student at Northwood High School are upset after the principal asked them to provide a letter from a rabbi justifying the kippah their son wore to school. Last week Steven Tanenbaum’s 17-year-old son, Caleb, began coming to classes wearing a kippah sruga--a Jewish head covering that his mother had knitted for him. When the administration told Caleb to remove the kippah, Caleb refused, saying that he wore it because he is Jewish, according to his father, Steven Tanenbaum. “He said, Call my mother. My mother made this for me,” Tanenbaum told Patch. But even when his parents …
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Yeeshai Goldstein
2:04 pm on Sunday, April 14, 2013
I think the principal was wrong for asking that and im jewish and I wear my kippah everywhere I go and it's not a requirement to wear your kippah it's optional and all denominations of judaism has different views on that so Not all Jews wear their kippahs it's an opition and I bet if a Muslim girl went to that school with her HiJab they would t have a problem with it. We all have rights we can … more ›