German airport staff ask rabbi to remove kippah, against official policy

According to VIN news, Rabbi Teichtal said: “The police chief issued a directive to all federal officers in the country to cease this procedure, which was never official,”

“Moreover, the president of the police confirmed this officially and also approved its publication.”

“‘While there’s no doubt that safety guidelines need to be followed, the directive to remove the kipah—a Jewish symbol that never leaves our heads—was never approved and holds no validity,” said the rabbi, who has run the Jewish center since the mid-1990s.

In May 2022, Germany’s national airline Lufthansa apologized for keeping more than 100 identifiably Jewish people from flying from the city of Frankfurt to Hungary. Later that year, the airline adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism.