Nov 6, 2025
Thinking of making a comic about how hijab and tichel are actually very different and acting as if they’re similar hinders your understanding of both and the cultures the come from
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Thinking of making a comic about how hijab and tichel are actually very different and acting as if they’re similar hinders your understanding of both and the cultures the come from
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Why do some Jews cover their hair or heads?
For some, it’s law. For others, it’s culture, spirituality, modesty, or identity. Men might wear kippot, hats, or turbans; women might wear sheitels, scarves, or nothing at all.
Sources like Ketubot 72a and Mishnah Berurah shaped centuries of practice, but today, it varies by community and conviction.
There’s no single story, only a rich mosaic of tradition, choice, and meaning.
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MODEST WEAR - HIJAB #15 SIMS 4 CC
Hello, new hijab/headwrap out now on TSR. Enjoy 😊.
Hijab #15 TSR
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Joined a cross religion discord server for veiling/headscarves and immediately one of the mods went nuclear on a user for daring to be Israeli and saying happy passover. "you can celebrate passover and we love Jews but hate Zionists" was said. The mod ended up kicking the Israeli for being born in a country.
Left that server immediately but by God come on people
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Hot take: I think we should normalize the practice of headcovering.
Hear me out.
I say this because I want it to stop being seen as weird. Or strictly even a solely religious practice. I want people to stop getting funny looks or xenophobic comments and stares in stores or when existing in public for wearing headcoverings. I want people to feel like they can wear a kippah or a mitpachat or a hijab or other styles of headcoverings in public without getting harrassment from xenophobic mediocre middle aged white guys with inferiority complexes for wearing them.
So - if you've been idly toying with the idea of buying a couple of scarves because you saw the pretty styles a random jewish lady was rocking online, or you liked the way a hijabi styled her scarf with her outfit for a party on tiktok and thought "I wanna try that, that looks cute", guess what - from a random middle-aged Jewish lady on the internet, here's your permission to go on Wrapunzel or Amazon or to the clearance rack at tjmaxx, and find a few cute scarves, buy them, and experiment with wearing them.
Because here's the thing. You can do it and it's not appropriative to do so. In fact, not only can you wear scarves like that (even the tichel styles!), if you ask a lot of ladies who cover their hair part or full time for religious (or non religious) reasons, a lot of us would really just be thrilled if you wanted to wear them. lol. Like there's outliers, sure, but largely the people I know who cover their hair are just as likely to welcome you to your newest shopping habit as I am.
Nearly every culture at some point had some sort of headcovering practice for modesty or religious reasons, or both, in it's history. So nobody really can lay claim to a monopoly on the practice of tying a piece of fabric around your head.
I've been an on again, off again wearer of tichels for a while now (I have alopecia and sometimes I also just am too lazy to deal with my hair but mostly I find the practice spiritually engaging and a signal to others that I am happily taken, thanks!). In the time I've worn scarves, I've gotten tons of compliments - and also, a fair amount of hateful or scathing comments from people for wearing them. (I expect it, I live in a small midwestern town where we are likely the only Jews for... dozens of miles in any direction). But I feel like the more I wear them, the more people get used to it, and the less likely they are to be jerks and harass someone who is super religious. And that thought outweighs any of the crap I occasionally take from ignorant rednecks over it.
Veiled Queer People Belong In Queer Spaces Too
I've seen this idea that's sort of ingrained in the queer community that someone who dresses modestly and/or veils is either homophobic or doesn't belong in queer spaces. In reality, there are many queer people that wear veils like hijab/niqab, tichel, himation/tegidion, the list goes on. I think that idea comes from veiling being associated with misogyny and misogyny being linked with homophobia. While misogyny is often linked with homophobia, veiling is NOT a misogynistic practice. There's also this idea that men/nonbinary people can't and don't wear veils and many trans men and nonbinary people feel invalidated because queer and cishet people alike don't know that many religions allow and even encourage men to wear veils. In Hellenic polytheism (my religion) men and women alike have historically worn veils like the himation. I get a lot of people asking me why I identify as transmasc while wearing a veil and telling me that there's no point in me being nonbinary while wearing veils.
I used to wrap my hair every day. I stopped when I left my abusive ex. He never made me cover my hair, but it was symbolic of our relationship, so I stopped. I've started experimenting with tichels again though. This was (and still is) my favorite scarf I have. It's a messy wrap, but I like it.