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On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 04:23:33PM +0000, Kenneth Miller wrote:<br>
:> I would think the difference is between being laughed at for<br>
:> doing what's right, and being laughed at for how one goes<br>
:> about doing it.<br>
...<br>
: I think it is safe to say, as a matter of historical record, that
there<br>
: WAS a time when even in the frummest areas of New York City, it was
"pas<br>
: nisht" (unseemly) to walk in the street with a yarmulka...<br>
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Even today one sees this in the Brooklyn court system. The are some
old time observant lawyers who to this day do not wear a yarmulke in
court, while almost all of the younger observant attorneys do wear
yarmulkes. I know of a case where the clerk for a certain judge
does wear a yarmulke and his boss, the judge who is older,
does not.<br><br>
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