![]() Let’s sanction the mullahs and stand with women, life, freedom everywhere. Iran’s corrupt morality police have struck the rock of women’s resistance. Plus male-pattern baldness seems to come on young among those with Jewish genes, so bald and Jewish is always an option. Freedom-lovers mourn the death of Mahsa Amini, killed by Iran’s theocrats, and back Iranian women demanding free lives. But a bald pate was more common than you’d expect, at least among Harvard and MIT’s doctoral candidates. We must do whatever we can to reach out both within our Jewish community and beyond to friends and neighbors so that no one becomes as desperate as Ed Lopes. Sometimes, it seems unlikely that a younger guy is bald enough to have a kippah-sized patch, so it must be a yarmulke, we’d think. This means there’s always space for a rousing round of “Jewish or just bald?” (There are also variations, such as “frum or bald?”)Įspecially among the younger community of 20- and 30-somethings living in the scholarly climes of Cambridge, it was a fine line - when moving about largely secular spaces, whether that be campus or the climbing gym, the game could so easily go either way. ![]() There is a sizable observant community there, but while it is close-knit, there is a constantly rotating cast of characters due to the stream of graduate students passing through Boston’s many universities at any given time. This mistake reminded me of a game played widely in my Jewish circle when I was in graduate school and living in Somerville, Massachusetts. Folks are confused whether Jamie Raskins hairstyle is real or if he is wearing a Hair Piece because his hairline has thickened up since his previous. As he turned his head slightly to gesticulate, the edge of his bald spot looked like a kippah. As it turned out, Raskin was not wearing a skullcap he is just balding, with that particular kind of male-pattern baldness that leaves the appearance of a full head of hair from the front, but a surprisingly shiny pate from the back.
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