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Her treasures range from seventeenth-century Tibetan prayer shawls to fragments of Egyptian cotton dating possibly to the ninth century.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
The claim: Image shows Tom Hanks fled to Israel after the release of Jeffrey Epstein's list
A Jan. 3 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows actor Tom Hanks dancing in a crowd while wearing a yarmulke and Jewish prayer shawl.
—USA TODAY, 7 July 2014
At a campaign rally in October, a huge screen with the image of a man wearing a Jewish prayer shawl and blowing a shofar suddenly illuminated the stadium.
—Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
In addition to plowing and harvesting, buying and selling, cooking by kindling a fire, writing and other obvious kinds of employment, carrying any object outside the home — keys, books, prayer shawls, canes or even babies — is forbidden.
—Joseph Berger, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
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First Known Use
1892, in the meaning defined above
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“Prayer shawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prayer%20shawl. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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