Following Attack in Marseille, French Jews Debate Whether or Not to Wear Yarmulkes in Public
A sad, important question is being circulated in France these days: Should Jews be able to freely wear kippot around Marseille?
On Tuesday—a day after a teacher was attacked and slightly wounded by a machete-wielding 15-year-old outside of a Jewish school in Marseille—Zvi Ammar, the head of the Israelite Consistory of Marseille and a leader in the Jewish community, said that he believes the city’s Jewish males should abstain from wearing yarmulkes.