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Andrew Mark Bennett

Andrew Mark Bennett is a lawyer and doctoral candidate in Law at the Freie Universität Berlin. He was a fellow of the “Human Rights Under Pressure” program and is an independent consultant on antisemitism.

POSTS BY Andrew Mark Bennett

28 Mai 2019

Andrew Mark Bennett

On Wearing the Kippa in Public – and in Public Service

The kippa, the Jewish skullcap, is again in the news after the admission of Felix Klein, Germany's Commissioner for Jewish Life and the Fight Against Anti-Semitism, that he cannot recommend that Jews wear a kippa everywhere in Germany. The statement has been harshly criticized as an official surrender to antisemitism. Such criticism is woefully misplaced. Klein certainly intended no surrender and was merely recognizing the existing reality. Continue reading >>

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