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This is one of few Stars of David I got for my birthday from my family members. Since I started collecting Stars of David they thought that giving me such a birthday present will surely make me happy and they were right!

Fire Stand

Last week Film Director Aran Patinkin and I visited Moshe Genish in his tent in the Galilee and interviewed him for a documentary film about the Star of David that we want to suggest to the Israeli channel 8 T.V. If it will be accepted it should be screened on Independence Day 2008.
Moshe is enthusiastic about Stars of David and he even built a Fire Stand in this shape. I reckon this is the only one of its kind in the whole world and this I call originality!

origami

I started looking for Star of David origami a few years ago on the WWW but found nothing. Now it just fell into my hands with the new Hebrew book of Miri Golan and Paul Jeckson.

Raelian Hexagram

There was a chapter about Rael in the Wikipedia entry on Star of David but I asked the editor to transfer it to the hexagram entry and he did. Since I want to show what the Star of David IS NOT I decided to include it here in my collection, but remember that this shape here doesn't have the proper name and doesn't have any Jewish meaning.
Picture is courtesy of Kiel Bryant who published it on Flickr and wrote there:

Raelian logo, pre- and post-1991. 

Kiel Bryant wrote to me:

Creepy, isn't it? A bit ironic that my icon should be an Egyptian emblem . . .Anyhow: you do appear enchanted by the Star of David, and rightly so, it is a mesmerizing shape. My suggestion, as appreciator of art to kindred spirit, is that you look up "entrelac" and specifically -- though its title may repel you -- "Islamic entrelac." You should, doing this, discover varieties of David's star of such beauty and complexity and ultimately grace as to overwhelm.

Acronyms

Sometimes we see Hebrew letters in the middle of the Star of David which are acronyms of the Hebrew words "here is buried" (Po Nitman). As I already mentioned in earlier postings the middle of the Star of David is frequently a frame for "important Jewish things" and this is surely one of them...

Too Long Stripes

The long blue stripes make the Star of David seem smaller than it should be. I guess it is illegal to hang such long flags since it is a violation of the specifications of the "Flag Law". 
Picture is courtesy of "meneer Tan" who published it on Flickr and wrote to me:

The picture was taken on tuesday january 10th 2006 at the '"Independence Hall" in Tel Aviv, Israel. "Independence Hall" is were the state Israel was proclaimed in 1948.The photo actually is a panoramic picture composed of roughly 8 individual photos.

Memory Plate

Photo is courtesy of "Parke"
who published it on Flickr and wrote to me:

This is inside the Anshei Minsk Synagogue in Kensington Market in downtown Toronto. The Minsk is an operating orthodox synagogue today.
I visted during Doors Open Toronto, during which many places open their doors to the general public. I took this photo on the Sabbath (Saturday), which I really shouldn't have.

The hexagonal frame of the Star of David is used sometimes to store "important Jewish things" like the name of God, Jerusalem, Zion, and in this case for a memory plate. Some day I'll publish a list of all the "important Jewish things" I found inside this frame...