Sunday, December 24, 2006

Anti-Semitic Add in Malaga, Spain


Picture od USD inside a Jewish Star is courtesy of "bug138" who published it on Flickr. 
You don't have to know Spanish in order to understand that somebody there in Malaga hates the Star of David and what it stands for, and that he's not the first nor the last to hate our guts...

Blue Box in the Boulevard

A prominent Jewish star on a Huge Blue Box in twenty one sculptors exhibition in Tel Aviv as part of a fundraising campaign for re-forestation efforts in northen Israel.
The Blue Box used for over a century to collect money from Jews abroad for foresting the land of Israel.
Picture is courtesy of savtadotty who published it on Flickr

Sukyo Mahikari

Hexagram on Sukyo Mahikari Main World Shrine in Takayama, Gifu, Japan (Their recently constructed King Solomon's Temple).  Sukyo Mahikari is a Japanese New Religion based on the writings of Mr Yoshikazu Okada (1901-1974) who founded the Mahikari organization in 1959 . Mahikari is the Japanese word for True Light. Size of Group is about 2,000,000.
Picture is courtesy of "orclimber" who published it on Flickr.

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Peace Art Drawing

Photo is courtesy of dakinewavamon who wrote to me:
I doodle! This one was drawn on July 14, 2006 during the conflict. Another Star of David was drawn for our Charis Corp. "Working with Israel" Class offered this year.
Note: unfortunately, in the current situation, if a Palestinian in Gaza sees a dove with a huge Star of David on its wing and the Hebrew letters for IDF above it - he pulls out his gun and shoots the dove...

The Blue Box

Picture of Blue Box Jewish star is courtesy of "savtadotty" who published it on Flickr with the caption
Height: 4.5 inches
The first Blue Box  was suggested on December 29, 1901 at the 5th Zionist Congress in Basle by Haim Kleinman, a bank clerk from Nadvorna, Galicia.

Fire Pit inside Yantra for Anahata Chakra

Indian HexagramPicture of Indian yantra hexagram is courtesy of Nadarupa who wrote to me:
The photo on our Flickr site is actually a yantra (symbol) for Anahata Chakra (Energy Centre of the Heart), which is composed of interlocking blue and red triangles, representing the union of male / female energies in the heartspace (centre of compassion / unconditional love). This is a very ancient yogic / Hindu symbol and, like the swastika, has been used by others since. A "kund" is a firepit, used for ceremonial purposes. The photo on our site is of the anahata yantra drawn around a kund for a celebration at the end of a 5-day yoga festival held in France in July 2006.

Friday, December 22, 2006

Jewish Encyclopedia

The designer of the cover of the Jewish Encyclopedia used the Jewish Star here to create the formula: Star of David = Jewish. 
I took this photo at the Rockefeler Museum in Jerusalem , a very impressive background for such scholarly items.