Peace Art Drawing

SHALOM: If there is peace. there is hope, originally uploaded by dakinewavamon.

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

Picture 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.

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.

Second Zionist Congress Delegate Card

Picture of  a lion inside the Jewish Star was copied from the Jewish Encyclopedia.
The following paragraph is from Dr. Asher Eder’s book The Star of David, which was published in 1987 in English in Jerusalem by Rubin Mass Ltd. The publication here is courtesy of Oren Mass
This version includes corrections and new materials that do not appear on the printed version

The famous Stadt-Kasino of Basel where the Congress took place had the six-pointed star above its entrance, and some meters away from it a white flag with two stripes, probably in dark blue.
The Delegirten-Karte (delegate's card) for the Second Zionist Congress in 1898, also in Basel, was decorated with a Magen David showing a lion in its middle field and seven five-pointed stars resembling the manner shown above (fig.19), embellished by two decorative stripes.
Meanwhile, the symbol had made its way to the United States. There, the American Jewish Publication Society adopted it as its emblem in 1873, while it was flown as a flag for the first time in 1904 at the St. Louis World Fair, in the design we know today.
The inventor of this flag may have been motivated, if not inspired, by the design of the Delegirten-Karte for the Second Zionist Congress.
Dr. D. Wolfsohn, a close friend and successor to Dr. Theodore Herzl, then suggested that the flag of Zion consist of the Star of David with the two parallel lines of the talith (the Jewish prayer shawl) above and below it. This suggestion might have been modeled on the aforementioned delegation card, and perhaps on the flag used in St. Louis (Missouri), although we have no proof of this.
Next, the Star of David graced the flag of the first Jewish army unit in modern history, the Mule Corps of World War I.
However, some decades passed until the 18th Zionist Congress approved this design as the flag of the Zionist Organisation and the Jewish people. The Congress, which took place in Prague in August 1933, put this sign out as a banner, thereby defying the slander which had become the official policy of Nazi Germany.

Star of David on Every Page

Magen David appears on each and every page of Theodore Herzl's newpaper, Die-Welt. All in all we talk about thousands of pages...What a great promotion for this symbol in its infancy.

The Promised Land Inside a Star of David

Magen David on the logo of Theodore Herzl's newpaper, Die-Welt, with a map of the promised land inside.