hey, if he can keep a tune – he’ll be able to sing and dance at the same time without his kippah falling off his head )
4:34pmĪside from the great kippah idea, Ber has a fantastic voice. “As I say in my video, you don’t have to be religious, or Jewish to appreciate the beauty of this idea,” says Cohen, “and I with G-d’s help, we’ll get our first run produced and ready for sale by this fall.”Īt time of publication Sholom Ber has managed to raise $8,841 of the $18,000 goal.Ĭlick Here to check out his Kickstarter PageĬool idea. “We still have a long way to go,” explains Cohen, “It’s been up for a few days, but I don’t know if people understand they are supposed to make a pledge.” It allows innovators in the fields of film, music, fashion, and technology, to introduce their projects to the entire the world, and raise money to get their dreams off the ground.Īnyone in the world can contribute toward a Kickstarter project, and they are only charged the amount of their pledge when and if the project is fully funded. Kickstarter is the preeminent “crowd funding” website in the world today. The earnest young man has poured his own savings into setting up a business entity (Jewish Sportswear, LLC), and developing his prototypes “But making six thousand, fully packaged Action Kippahs, requires a lot more cash than I have just laying around. “I’ve got about a dozen different color combinations ready to go into production now,” says Cohen, “except that there’s the money thing…” His voice trails off as he says this. Over the past year, Cohen has sourced a special sports mesh fabric, consulted with fashion designers and factories overseas, and developed a brand logo. He’s been helping me set this up from day one.”
“Zayde ran a successful wholesale topcoat business for over 30 years. So for that he turned to his grandfather for advice and guidance.
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It helped that he was no stranger to the world of selling products to a Jewish audience (his father’s Agent Emes series has been a popular hit for over ten years), but clothing manufacturing was way out of his league. I guess that got wheels in my head turning, and the next time I was out on the court, struggling – as usual – to keep my kippah on, the idea just hit me.”Īfter a successful test of his invention out on the court (“it worked even better than I thought”) Cohen surmised that other Jews would want one too. “My mother had purchased a new sewing machine, but soon ran out of things to sew.
“It was really just on a whim”, explained Cohen. The idea behind the Action Kippah is both simple, and brilliant: Ber discovered that by using elastic bands to attach a standard kippah (or yarmulke) to a stretchable, sports headband, a Jew could participate fully in athletic activities, and still adhere to the tradition of keeping his head covered at all times. He has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the Action Kippah, a revolutionary solution to an age-old Jewish problem. Now, as a young adult, Ber has found another way to help out but this time he needs the contribution of the Jewish community to make it happen. Bochur Invents Simple Solution to Kippa ‘Problem’Īs a child, Sholom Ber Cohen played the title role in the “Agent Emes” DVD series, about a kid secret agent who devotes his life to helping the Jewish people.
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