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On Monday, the popular German newspaper Bild will print a kippa on its pages that can be cut and worn on the head. The newspaper's unusual action is to protest against the remarks made by Felix Klein, the government official responsible for combating anti-Semitism in Germany, who warned Jews throughout the country, "Unfortunately, I can not recommend that Jews wear a skullcap anywhere in Germany." Bild's chief editor said on Twitter, "If there is even one Jew in Germany who does not feel he can wear a skullcap without risk, our only answer should be that we all have to...

A leading Jewish authority in Marseille, southern France, asked fellow Jews on Tuesday to refrain from wearing their traditional skullcap to stay safe after a machete-wielding teen attacked a Jewish teacher. Zvi Ammar, head of the Israelite Consistory of Marseille, said he is asking Jews to go without the kippa "until better days". His call came a day after a 15-year-old Turkish Kurd attacked and wounded a Jewish teacher on a street in Marseille

May 10, 2007 -- Muslim correction officers can wear their skullcaps to work, now that state prison officials have agreed to settle a federal lawsuit with one officer who claimed his rights were violated when supervisors ordered him to remove the cap.

PARIS - France should ban Muslim veils, Jewish skullcaps and large Christian crosses from its public schools, while creating new holidays to respect holy days of minority religions, an official report said on Thursday. The long-awaited report on church-state relations, the center-piece of a national debate over integrating Muslims into French society, advised Paris to stand firm against militant Islamists trying to undermine official secularism. It also urged traditionally Catholic France to respect "all spiritual options" in its ever more diverse society and stressed that sexual equality was a key criterion in deciding whether certain practices were considered acceptable. President...

Peking Man's skullcap on display in China September 22 2003 at 06:39AM Beijing - A crucial skull fragment belonging to the famous 500 000-year-old Peking Man is being shown to the public for the first time ever, Chinese state media said on Monday. The priceless bone fragment is on display at a museum 48km south-west of Beijing, near the place where Peking Man was first discovered almost a century ago, the Xinhua news agency reported. Although the bone is little more than the size of a palm and shows only the front part of an individual's skull, it is one...