Embracing my Jewishness

First of all I’ll preface this with: I realize that it is married orthodox women who wear a tichel and by wearing a tichel as a non orthodox woman I could misrepresent orthodox women by not acting in an orthodox way.

Anyways, I love tichels as a subtle sign of Jewishness (few if any goyim where I live will know what it is) that makes me feel closer to my roots and keeps Judaism in the forefront of my mind throughout the day.

I’ve been on the fence about wearing a tichel but I feel like in an increasingly antisemitic world, I don’t want to let a fear of antisemitism stop me from being visibly Jewish. If anything it’s making me more visibly Jewish.