{"id":2950,"date":"2011-01-05T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2013-05-03T13:28:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T17:28:04","slug":"yid-lids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/05\/yid-lids\/","title":{"rendered":"YID LIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Maybe a collage artist <\/strong><\/span>can do something with my yarmulke collection, from 22 years’ worth of gigs.\u00a0 I know an artist — a bad one — who did something with old saxophone reeds.<\/p>\n

\"yarmalka-quilt\"My Guatemalan yarmulkes, crocheted by Mayan Indians, are from neo-hippie weddings.\u00a0 There are no bouquet tosses, garter-belt strip routines, or formal introductions at these weddings.\u00a0 The Mayan kippot <\/em>(yarmulkes) are particularly popular with female rabbi brides. That’s a niche — weddings of women rabbis — that Yiddishe Cup has cornered in the Midwest.<\/p>\n

\"bubby1\"The most heymish<\/em> lids are grandmas’ knitted yarmulkes.<\/p>\n

My blue suede yarmulkes are from A-1 Skull Caps.\u00a0 The lids don’t breathe.\u00a0 Skull<\/em> cap. I like a yarmulke that breathes.<\/p>\n

Camouflage kippahs<\/em><\/strong><\/span> exist, too.\u00a0 One Yiddishe Cup musician, a pacifist, declined to wear his camo lid at a Zahal<\/em>-themed bar mitzvah. \u00a0Zahal<\/em> is the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).\u00a0 The bar mitzvah boy’s father wore combat boots and a full Israeli uniform.\u00a0 The band wore IDF T-shirts and camouflage yarmulkes.\u00a0 (Nobody noticed our musician in street clothes.)<\/p>\n

\"beathing-yarmulke1\"I have six purple kippot<\/em> from a bar mitzvah.\u00a0 I thought the band might want to wear the lids again at another bar mitzvah.\u00a0 Go for the clean David Clark Five look.\u00a0 The guys declined.<\/p>\n

We wore sports yarmulkes — plus basketball jerseys — at a sports-themed bar mitzvah party. \u00a0The party even had a cheerleading squad:<\/p>\n

Mazel tov \/ Let’s shout hurray \/ It’s Jeremy and Sam’s bar mitzvah day!<\/p>\n

I say oy<\/em> \/ You say vey<\/em> \/ Jeremy and Sam are men today!<\/p>\n

\"cheerleaders-ducoff-twins\"<\/p>\n

Yiddishe Cup’s keyboard player, <\/strong><\/span>Alan Douglass, frequently asks, “Is this a yarmulke gig?”\u00a0 He’s a goy<\/em> and can’t figure out what’s up with the various Jewish denominations.<\/p>\n

My Conservative rabbi wears a throwaway satin lid that funeral homes and synagogues give out.\u00a0 He apparently doesn’t want to look different from his congregants. I haven’t asked yet — after 20 years — why he wears the throwaway.<\/p>\n

My white satin yarmulke from Dec. 9, 2007 has “Ananth Uggirala” — the groom’s name — in it. The groom’s parents were Anjaneyulu and Manorama Uggirala.\u00a0 I had to announce them.\u00a0 Tip, please.<\/p>\n

You need good hair clips for a yarmulke.\u00a0 Bobby pins are the worst; they take your hair out with the yarmulke.\u00a0 Duck bill clips – also no good.\u00a0 The best clips are the surfboard barrettes.\u00a0 \u00a0If you don’t have these clips, get some, particularly for outdoor gigs.<\/p>\n

If you drop a yarmulke, <\/strong><\/span>you don’t have to kiss it before putting it back on.\u00a0 A lid is a lid.\u00a0 It’s not a holy object.\u00a0 Also, goys<\/em>, <\/em>wear the lid at the wedding ceremony; you’re not exempt.<\/p>\n

At an American-Israeli wedding, one of the chuppah<\/em> (bridal canopy) bearers smoked and balanced a drink.\u00a0 His yarmulke fell off.\u00a0 Secular Israelis, they’re funny that way.<\/p>\n

It’s shocking when you see an Orthodox guy without<\/em> a lid.\u00a0 For instance, an Orthodox man might go into a non-kosher restaurant on a road trip and take his yarmulke off.\u00a0 (Some Orthodox, when in the sticks, will go to a fast-food place for a salad.)<\/p>\n

I wore a yarmulke<\/strong><\/span> for a week when I hitchhiked the coast of California in my twenties.\u00a0 I had seen a photo of Bob Dylan wearing a yarmulke at the Western Wall.\u00a0 Dylan did yahm-ops at The Wall every couple decades, it seemed.<\/p>\n

\"yarmulke-best-photo2\"<\/p>\n

My Easter basket of yahms makes for a moderately interesting pop-psych experiment on shabbes<\/em>: Who is going to take the pink, who is going to take the matzo-textured lid, and who is going to hide behind the black lid?<\/p>\n

Have fun with lids.\u00a0 That’s in the Torah somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe a collage artist can do something with my yarmulke collection, from 22 years’ worth of gigs.\u00a0 I know an artist — a bad one — who did something with old saxophone reeds. My Guatemalan yarmulkes, crocheted by Mayan Indians, are from neo-hippie weddings.\u00a0 There are no bouquet tosses, garter-belt strip routines, or formal introductions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shul-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14637,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions\/14637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}