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emeritus of German at the University of California at Santa Barbara, was the as-sumption (which even the Supreme Court made) that the yarmulke is an old and sa- cred part of the Jewish faith.
In the Torah, he notes, nothing is even said about covering the head, much less with a yarmulke. "Neither in the 248 posi- tive, nor in the 365 negative, precepts listed in the Torah (the dos and don'ts), is there any mention of this rite." Through- out the Old Testament, "covering...