Comments on: Keffiyeh Cool? Oy!

By: themiddle

themiddle — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:13:16 +0000

Actually, Joe, to many people they are a symbol of resistance and that resistance was often defined by terrorism. Just because you don’t like that FACT, it doesn’t make it any less true. Of course, this isn’t true all the time, but it’s true enough that we can come to these conclusions with confidence.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:07:00 +0000

BTW…they are not symbols of terrorism. They are not symbols of resistance. You are making all of that up in your own heads. Keffiyehs are simply a traditional middle eastern article of clothing. Its like saying wearing blue jeans is a symbol of being a liberal democratic capitalist. Ridiculous. Like I said before…its a scarf. Get over it.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:04:04 +0000

I’m Jewish. I live in Alabama. I wear a kippah. Sometimes I wear a keffiyeh. I don’t see it as making any sort of political statement. Its a scarf…get over yourselves.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:37:15 +0000

Hello people. Where do I get a Keffiyeh Israelit? I think we need to hit back, why should the Palestinians get all the attention? God Bless

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:09:06 +0000

I’ve been wearing keffiyehs for as long as I can remember and I’m not anti-semitic OR pro-palestinian. Everyone on my family’s farm in Turkey wore them through out the year and it seemed like a logical choice to keep wearing them here in the US during the summer and winter. It’s a little ridiculous when some people immediately take a negative connotation to something. I even got slapped by a complete stranger a couple days ago for wearing it.

By: Some middle eastern sounding name like Shahin

Some middle eastern sounding name like Shahin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:31:26 +0000

“Well, I know those hot, sweaty, olive-skinned men shouting in the streets with their AK-47s are certainly, um… compelling.”

I nearly laughed! Hot? As in good looking? Well, some people are wierd, I won’t be surprised….

I think people need to let go of this issue and let it run its course, so what the keffiyeh in style instead of the yamaka, not a big deal.

Next year we’ll all dress like Rabbi Abraham, and act gangster.

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Wed, 28 May 2008 18:44:11 +0000

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By: Alisa

Alisa — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:15:15 +0000

I have an Idea! Let’s start wearing talit in public! Boys, girls who cares….wear em around your neck with your big goofy sunglasses, wear em with your converse and ballerina slippers… Looks great with jeans….I think I might go dig up up the talit I got for free on my Birthright trip and start wearing it for fashion. I mean it’s so authentic cuz I got itin Jerusalem when I finally had my bat mitzvah at 25 ( i was like i’m a girl why am i even wearing this….but they said to put it on for the picture…) I mean the “red string” thing is just soooo 2005….and like Free Tibet is “mainstream”…

By: ck

ck — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:21:49 +0000

Yeah Channah. I think that was the point of the post. But a sincere thanks for reiterating and even expanding on it!

By: Channah

Channah — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:19:11 +0000

Id like to add ,
That i think sometimes if judaism was more practical in its approach to certain things then we might see a bigger return of secular jews to become religious jews.

I know of several people – my self included – who would have become religious but just couldnt live with the impracticalities of the lifestyle..

once upon a time we were all walking around in hijabs and jilbabs and veils and turbans , only a move to Europe changed that ..

im not advocating a move towards dressing like muslims or terrorists but only that we should take a good look at the way we used to practise and dress before we dismiss something ..

for me , hijabs and keffiyahs and jilbabs and henna are all as jewish practises as anything that the ultra frum in jerusalem do