Thanks, Lisa, for this information. When I was at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin in 1966, knitting a kippah for one’s boyfriend was already a fad (is that word even used any more?) The more intricate the pattern, often including a Hebrew name in Hebrew letters, the better. Debbie Colodny
> On Aug 5, 2021, at 10:18 PM, Lisa Silverman via Hasafran > <[email protected]> wrote: > > When was the practice of wearing knitted or patterned kippot begun in North > America? No one was able to lead me to anything definitive on this, but the > best guesses by people are that the practice began in the 1960's or 70's.
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