![]() “I wear one myself and the yarmulke works perfectly,” he continued. “We first saw a team wearing them in a basketball tournament in New York, and I thought it was a great idea and that we have to get some,” said Rabbi Yonatan Gersten, principal of Cooper Yeshiva in Memphis, Tenn. 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. ![]() If you seek adventure without consequence and you’re into strikingly large well-tamed beards then you’ll want to check out Burly Men at Sea.Most people who see Jon Kaweblum’s invention invariably have the same reaction. This charming game puts players in the shoes of the narrator as they work to shape the story of three fisher-brothers who step away from their ordinary lives to take the voyage of a lifetime.īurly Men at Sea was developed by Brooke and David Condolora, the dynamic husband-and-wife team at Brain&Brain. While out at sea the brothers find a message in a bottle caught in their net.Ī cross between an interactive graphic novel and a point-and-click adventure, this game follows the tale of three fishermen with beards appropriately named Brave Beard, Hasty Beard, and Steady Beard. They soon discover the message is a map displaying their village at the center with water surrounding their small island. Hasty Beard thinks it’s useless while Steady Beard believes it must have a greater purpose. ![]() The brothers return to their fishing village to speak with locals in order to uncover information about the map. With not much more information to go on the brothers see this as their opportunity for adventure and set sail to the unknown.Įventually at a coffee house they meet an old man who tells the burly brothers that the map they carry “brings about adventurous deeds and heroic feats.” But after their brief encounter with the man, he disappears out a back door. The player controls how the adventure is told with various branching scenes based on player decisions. With significant replay value each choose your own adventure playthrough starts and ends in the same place what happens during the rest of the story is up to the player. Each session allows the player to choose three different ways to tell the story.
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