By DIANE M. REY, For The Capital
By DIANE M. REY, For The Capital
Capital Gazette Communications
Published
01/30/09
First there was the book, then the movie, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants."
Diane M. Rey — For the Capital
Ari Wasch, 7, displays some of the colorful kippot his family located while on a vacation in Guatemala in August. The kippot provide a 'double mitzvah' by benefiting the Mayan women who make them and Aleph Bet Jewish Day School on Spa Road, which sells them as a school fundraiser.
The story of four teenage girls and a pair of magical jeans is pure fiction, but here in Annapolis, there's a true tale that could be called "The Journey of the Traveling Kippot."
Also called a yarmulke, a kippah - the plural is kippot - is the name for the head covering traditionally worn by Jewish men. For the students in a small Jewish school in Annapolis, and the Mayan women of a tiny Guatemalan village, the small rounded cap also is a symbol of their ability to bridge divides in culture, language and...
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