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'I bought a baseball cap to hide my kippah': Jews observe first Shabbat after Golders Green attack
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- Judith Moritz,Special correspondentand Daniel Wittenberg,Senior producer Carlos Jasso/AFP via Getty Images.
- "I went shopping yesterday and bought a baseball cap," says Derek, who lives in Edgware in north London and did not want to give his full name.
- "I felt that to go on the underground, as a religious Jew, was just too problematic."
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Judith Moritz,Special correspondentand Daniel Wittenberg,Senior producer Carlos Jasso/AFP via Getty Images. The scene in Golders Green earlier this week during a visit by the PMFor the first time in his life, Derek has decided to conceal his Jewish skullcap - known as a kippah - when out in public.
"I went shopping yesterday and bought a baseball cap," says Derek, who lives in Edgware in north London and did not want to give his full name. "I never wear a baseball cap.
"I felt that to go on the underground, as a religious Jew, was just too problematic."
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