US team leaves Saudi Arabia early over kippah row – World

WASHINGTON: A US delegation on religious freedom said Monday it cut short its visit to Saudi Arabia after one of its members was asked to remove his Jewish head covering, or kippah.

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said its delegation was near Riyadh visiting Diriyah, a historic town that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, when the commission’s chair, the Orthodox Rabbi Abraham Cooper, “refused their requests that he remove his religious head covering.”

“No one should be denied access to a…