Exceptional Jewish Identification

Photo is courtesy of "GodzillaRockit" who published it on Flickr with the caption:

Some guy on the bus had a Star of David shaved into his head.

Many guys on the bus have tattoos on their body; many guys on the bus have a Kippa (Jewish cap) on their head, but it seems that this is the only guy on any bus that have the Star of David shaved into his head.

Another Kite

Picture is courtesy of Hanan Cohen who published it on Flickr under the title Magen David by the Shavit family (in Holon, Israel). This is the second design of a Star of David Kite that I publish here and when I'll find more such designs I'll publish them as well. This design is national in its choice of colors.

The Secret Of Interlacing

Photo is courtesy of omnia who published it on Flickr under the title "tomatoes" and shot it in the market of Kolimpong, India. What attracted me to this infinite grid of Stars of David is that it shows clearly how the interlacing of the equilateral triangles that comprise this symbol is made, because when you see it carved in stone, like in Capernaum, it is hard to guess.

Iranian Banknote

In a Reform Judaism magazine interview, Dr. Houman Sarshar, the director of publications at the Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History, said that In 1974  the Iranian government issued this 200-rial banknote with a six-pointed star on the back Iranians were furious. Rumors were spread that the new banknote had been printed in Israel and in a few hours the Iranian bank cancelled it.

Betty And Henri 1942

Photo is courtesy of artist Tsvi Nadav Rosler and it shows the yellow badge on the blouse of Betty. The painting is part of a series about the artist’s family in the Holocaust.

Size of the painting is 60X80 cm.

Copyright: Tsvi Nadav Rosler, 2007

This works is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser.

Technique: Acrylic

Tsvi Nadav Rosler wrote:

My sister and I are photographed a month before the police rapped at our door. My father, Aharon would then be taken and sent to Auschwitz. For my sister,my mother and for me would start the story of hiding and escaping.

Tsvi Nadav-Rosler was born in Antwerp in the year 1937. He studied graphic design in Antwerp's art academy. Came on Aliya with his spouse Miriam in 1959. He worked 35 years as manager of the art department of the Israeli Educational TV.

The Mousetrap

Photo is courtesy of artist Tsvi Nadav Rosler and it shows the yellow badge as a mousetrap.
Size of painting: 40x40 cm.
Tsvi Nadav Rosler was born in Belgium in 1937. He learned graphics in the Art Academy in Antwerp and worked for 35 years in the Israeli TV Educational Channel as the director of the art department. Tsvi showed his works in many group and solo exhibitions.
Copyright: Tsvi Nadav Rosler, 2007

Yuval Caspi, an Arab with a Purple Mustache

Yuval Caspi showed this impressive work, titled an Arab with a Purple Mustache, on the Yavne exhibition of Israeli artists painting Magen David, last May; curator was Roni Reuven.
The work is on laminated wood and it is an homage to famous Israeli painter Rafi Lavi who started the trend of painting on laminated wood. Also, there’s a Magen David drawn in a very thin line, which reminds us of Rafi Lavi’s Magen David. The Star of David surrounds an Arab with a purple mustache, a kind of a joke about the name of Rafi Lavi’s exhibition titled an Arab with a purple mustache, in which there was no such Arab. Yuval said in an interview with Eli Eshed
(In Hebrew) that the Arab in this work seems angry because he represents the fear of the West from the Muslim Fundamentalists that want to kill us all.
copyright: Yuval Caspi 2007