![]() ![]() Ten schools, including schools in Los Angeles, Memphis, Chicago and New Jersey, have ordered Klipped Kippahs for their teams. Once it’s on, you don’t even realize it’s there.”Īlthough the season was already under way, Kaweblum sent a sample kippah and some information to every Jewish high school in the country. “They work extremely well, even when I got a short haircut,” said Anosh Zaghi, an eleventh-grader and two-year starter at WYHS. ![]() When his players gave them the thumbs up, Kaweblum then sent a Klipped Kippah to the association, and the organization issued its stamp of approval. When it passed the test, he made a few more for his players. Kaweblum modified the clip, sewed it into his own kippah and wore it for a week. ![]() While trying to decide how to proceed, Kaweblum was looking at his wife’s shaitel and wondered, “How does she keep that on?” But before the season began last fall, the association ruled that metal clips and pins were dangerous attachments and unacceptable. Over the last few years, Kaweblum has had to petition the Florida High School Athletic Association for his players to wear kippot during games. Kaweblum’s brainstorm was the result of a dilemma he faced as the athletic director and boys basketball coach at Weinbaum Yeshiva High, a Modern Orthodox school in Boca Raton, Fla. In doing research before applying for a patent, Kaweblum said he was surprised no one had come up with the idea. “I think this will change the way people wear kippot,” said Kaweblum, 26, who is finishing his architectural degree at Florida Atlantic University. man created a yarmulke that doesn’t slip or slide - and may even withstand a Category 3 hurricane. “I should have thought of that,” they say of the simple yet practical innovation Kaweblum hopes will make bobby pins and hair clips obsolete for Jewish males who wear kippot.īy sewing into a kippah essentially two miniature versions of the hard, plastic comb women use to attach their shaitels, or wigs, the Aventura, Fla. Most people who see Jon Kaweblum’s invention invariably have the same reaction. ![]()
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