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Why I wear my kippah in New York: Standing strong against antisemitism | The Jerusalem Post

Jpost · · 825 words · By MICAH HALPERN
Antisemitism in New York City Religious Tradition (Kippah) Jewish Identity and Pride
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6 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“the only metropolitan area with more Jews than any other city in the world is Tel Aviv/Gush Dan”
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Wikipedia and web search results confirm Gush Dan (Tel Aviv metropolitan area) has a population of over 4 million with 89% being Israeli Jews (approx 3.6 million). Wikipedia confirms NYC's Jewish community is the largest 'outside of Israel', implying Gush Dan is the largest overall.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ben Gurion International Airport (IATA: TLV, ICAO: LLBG), commonly known by the Hebrew-language acronym Natbag (נתב״ג‎), is the main international airport of Israel. Situated on outskirts north of t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Gurion_Airport
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gush Dan (Hebrew: גּוּשׁ דָּן, lit. 'Dan bloc') or Tel Aviv metropolitan area is a major conurbation along Israel's Mediterranean coast. The term is commonly used by government bodies and the public, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gush_Dan
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tel Aviv, officially Tel Aviv-Yafo, and also known as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv
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“Today, about one million Jews are living in the five boroughs of NYC and another million in the suburbs.”
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Multiple sources support this: Wikipedia states over 960,000 Jews lived in the five boroughs as of 2020 and over 1.9 million in the region. A web search result explicitly mentions 'Nearly 1 million Jews live in NYC' and 'over 400,000 more in Westchester and Long Island', while another reference to the 2023 study covers the eight-county area.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — New York City, with a Census-estimated population of 8,584,629 in July 2025, is a large and ethnically diverse metropolis. It is the largest city in the United States, and has a long history of intern…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Approximately 12% of New York City's population is Jewish, making New York City's Jewish community the largest in the world outside of Israel. As of 2020, over 960,000 Jews lived in the five boroughs …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_New_Yor…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since its founding in 1625 by Dutch traders as New Amsterdam, New York City has been a major destination for immigrants of many nationalities who have formed ethnic enclaves, neighborhoods dominated b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_ethnic_enclaves
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“Wearing a kippah every day, all the time, is not mentioned in the Bible.”
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Both Chabad.org and Wikipedia (via the provided web search) state that the tradition of wearing a kippah is not derived from any biblical passage.
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web search NEUTRAL — A kippah[a] (pl. kippot), yarmulke, or koppel is a brimless Jewish skullcap, usually made of cloth, traditionally worn by Jewish men to fulfill the customary requirement that the head be covered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kippah
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web search NEUTRAL — Wearing a kippah every day, all the time, is not mentioned in the Bible. It is not a commandment – it is a tradition mentioned in the Talmud.They wear baseball caps or take off their kippot – some out…
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-894267
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web search NEUTRAL — The tradition to wear a kippah is not derived from any biblical passage. Rather, it is a custom which evolved as a sign of our recognition that there is Someone “above” us who watches our every act. T…
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/483387/jewish…
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“It is not a commandment – it is a tradition mentioned in the Talmud.”
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Chabad.org explicitly states that the kippah is a 'custom' (tradition) and mentions 'Talmudic Precedent' rather than a biblical commandment.
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web search NEUTRAL — WEARING definition: gradually impairing or wasting. See examples of wearing used in a sentence.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/wearing
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web search NEUTRAL — The meaning of WEARING is intended for wear. How to use wearing in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wearing
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web search NEUTRAL — WEARING meaning: 1. making you feel tired or annoyed: 2. making you feel tired or annoyed: . Learn more.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/weari…
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“the United States has a long and valued history of Jews standing against hatred and fighting for equality. Much of it began in New York City.”
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Evidence confirms the existence and activity of the Soviet Jewry movement in the US and the Jewish Defense League in the US/Canada. While the specific phrasing 'began in New York City' is a general historical narrative, the components (activism in civil rights, Soviet Jewry) are verified by Wikipedia.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The history of the Jews in the Soviet Union is inextricably linked to much earlier expansionist policies of the Russian Empire conquering and ruling the eastern half of the European continent already …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a far-right political organization in the United States, Canada and France. Its stated goal is to "protect Jews from antisemitism by whatever means necessary"; it wa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Soviet Jewry movement was a Jewish political movement opposed to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was primarily active in the United States, where advocacy campaigns were organized to rais…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Jewry_movement
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“The writer is a columnist and a social and political commentator. Watch his TV show, Thinking Out Loud, on JBS.”
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Three independent web sources (HuffPost, Congregation Ohab Zedek, and a JBS-related result) confirm Micah D. Halpern is a columnist, social/political commentator, and host of 'Thinking Out Loud' on JBS.
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