Star of David Equals Swastika

See photo: http://www.rfoto.co.uk/demos/DAIraq020928/0928davidswastikasm.jpg

Recently there were recorded by Canadian Police a few instances of spraying Star of David Equals Swastika on Jewish property

Weakness

Photo is courtesy of artist Ora Reuven, who added her drawings to a photo she took in Jaffa, where she grew up, which was ones a mixed Jewish-and-Arab neighborhood, but now almost all the Jews left, and those who stayed mark their homes with a Star of David.

Interestingly, one may see similar blue Stars of David on the walls all around the Palestinian Authority areas; those were made by proud settlers, expressing their conviction that Israel is strong. Here, in Jaffa, the same emblem suggests Weakness…

Copyright © Ora ruven

Jewish Ghetto in Jaffa

Photo of Stars of David on the houses of Jaffa is courtesy of artist Ora Reuven, who added her drawings to a series of photos she took in Jaffa, where she grew up, which was ones a mixed Jewish and Arab neighborhood, but now almost all the Jews left, and those who stayed mark their homes with a Star of David.

Copyright © Ora ruven

Wailing Wall Postcard

Photographer Naomi Tereza Salmon shot this photo of the Wailing Wall in a Star of David frame; it is part of a series titled: Black Box.

The Souvenir Series includes:

1. Black Box - Souvenir from Israel

2. Sehnsucht Heimat - Souvenir from Tirol

3. European Eyes on Japan - Souvenir from Tokyo

4. The Aftermath - Souvenir from Holocaust Memorials

5. MZG - Souvenir from the GDR

6. Zwiebeltown - Souvenir from Weimar

7. Bin There Done That - Souvenir from 9/11

8. D.O.M (Lighters)

9. Fundamental Bonbons

These Souvenirs, according to the artist:

… are mini-copies, memories of a trip, a stay somewhere, a moment. They come from a home, which they want to mirror, into a strange land: fragments of memory, chunks of yearning, signs of history, evidence of existence, knick-knacks.

Copyright: Naomi Tereza Salmon 2008

Misplaced Price Tag

Photographer Naomi Tereza Salmon shot this photo, which shows a price tag near a Yellow Badge, and raises the troubling question if there is a price to the Holocaust or if every thing in our world is already commercialized.

Trust inside the Hexagon

Photographer Naomi Tereza Salmo shot this photo; it is part of a series titled: Black Box. The Hebrew words (trust, purity) that you see here have double meaning and make one wonder what happened to the Israeli society (represented by the Magen David)  in relation to core values like battle morals and trust in the State.

Copyright: Naomi Tereza Salmon 2008

Happy New Year Diaspora

Star of David on a Happy New Year Card from the beginning of the 19th century is from Hayim Shtayer’s excellent and famous collection of Happy New Year Cards. It most probably expresses the longing for the return of Israel to the Promised Land. The Hebrew caption is strange and looks like a mistake: If I’ll forget you, Diaspora…instead of: If I’ll forget you, Jerusalem.