Montreal, Canada – People of Québec who want to make both a fashionable and political statement are wearing Fleur-de-lis covered kippot.
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The Times of Israel (http://bit.ly/18oEMRD) reports that Rabbi Yisroel Bernath designed the kippa to protest Bill 60, a bill that would ban on the wearing of religious symbols in the public of Quebec.
The projected legislation, also known as the Charter of Quebec Values, would prohibit any display of religious symbols and the wearing of religious attire by employees in the public forum.
Bernath used social media to spread his design to the public. The viral link immediately brought in potential buyers, and Bernath put the kippot on sale on the Internet for $10. He also sold them in Rodal’s Hebrew Bookstore & Gift Shop. In less than one month, Bernath has sold 320 kippot to both Jews and non-Jews.
Rabbi Bernath is known as “Montreal’s Hip Rabbi.” He is the spiritual director of Chabad Notre-Dame-de-Grace & Loyola Campus, and the Jewish chaplain at Concordia University.
I was under the impression that the Fleur-de-lis is an allusion of the cross. As such, what makes it appropriate for a yarmulke?
Nice going, Rabbi!!
Nice going, Rabbi!!
Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist rabbis look out! Maybe it’s hip to wear a kippah in Quebec now!!
There are Xtian connotations to the fleur-de-lis. Not clear it’s a good idea to put it on a yarmulka.
Well the fleur-de-lis may not be a Christian symbol per se, the white cross that appears on the Quebec flag, and on the kippahs in the above photos, most certainly is a Christian symbol. In fact, it’s THE most obvious of all the avodah zorah of the goyim.
the word fleur-de-lis is an allusion in catholic theology to the lilly of the field which is used as a metaphor for the (supposed) mother of yoshke. It was used as a cross by the archbishop-cardinal of paris for hundreds of years. It was most prominently used during the crusades. therefore, it is the banner under which hundreds of thousands of Jews died for keeping our faith. in my opinion; not a good symbol for a Jew to wear, ever.