Do you wear a Kippah and/or Tzitzit?
On September 24, 1996 I asked my rabbinic colleagues… in particular, those who wear Kippot (and request/require the students in their congregations to wear Kippot when either studying or entering the synagog), whether they wear Tzitzit as well, and if not, why. My original question was not so much about Tzitzit or Kippah as it was about how we make our decisions. First, I clarify from where I come. My background is not Reform, classical or otherwise. Nor is it Conservative nor, Orthodox. In fact, I do not come to the rabbinate out of any of the “religious” (perhaps I should say “synagog”) movements of our people. I come to the rabbinate from “polity” not “piety.” My parents were Yiddishist Secularists and I grew up in Jewish Centers and the Labor/Socialist Zionist movement. Even so (or perhaps so!), I am the only one of the kids in the small Los Angeles Conservative congregation, where I celebrated becoming a Bar Mitzvah and Confirmation, who became a rabbi (and one of only one other
