<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">With today&rsquo;s multi-styles of clothes worn throughout almost the whole world, especially by different ethnic groups, the wearing of a yarmulka in public is nothing unusual. However as we can see from a teshuvah of Rav David Zvi Hoffman (Melamed L&rsquo;hoil, Yoreh Deah, responsum 56) that this was not always the case. Rav Hoffman reports how one day he went to visit Rav Shimshon Refoel Hirsch. Rav Hirsch&rsquo;s Yeshivah had a department teaching secular subjects and whose lecturers were non-Jews. Rav Hirsch told him to remove his head covering since not being bareheaded would offend the non-Jewish lecturers.</span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" align="left"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Hasmonean<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Grammar School for Boys is an Orthodox Jewish School in London, which was established in 1944 by Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld z&rdquo;tl. In reminiscences by former pupils, Itzy Sabo wrote, &ldquo;</span><span style="color: #333333; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">Hasmonean was started by Yekkes. In the German Jewish tradition, the &lsquo;capple&rsquo; was used <em>exclusively</em> in religious contexts, e.g. praying. In the early years of Hasmo, the school rules required pupils to wear it during religious studies lessons, and <em>forbade</em> wearing it in secular contexts. Only pupils (typically of eastern European extraction) who brought a note from home saying it was their custom could wear one all the time.&rdquo; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>(see: http://melchettmike.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/hasmo-legends-xvi-1959-school-photograph/)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" align="left">&nbsp;</p> </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" align="left">&nbsp;</p>