From Dark to Bright

Painter Meir Salomon shot these four Magen Davids reflecting different stages of light at the area of Jaffa Flea Market, Israel
Copyright: Meir Salomon 2008

Varanasi Swastikas

Hexagram framed by many Swastikas appears in a shop in Varanasi, India.

In India the meaning of these two symbols is quite different that their Western interpretation.

Copyright: Dr. Gilad Galili 2008 (I cropped the hexagram from a larger image he sent me)

Thanks to Dobush for referring me to this interesting image.

Documentation of Graffiti Reactions to Rabin’s Murder

Hayim Shtayer went in November 1995 to Kikar Malchei Yisrael in Tel Aviv, the place where Yitzhak Rabin was murdered, and documented the spontaneous reactions of the Israeli public as they were written on the walls there. In the picture above we see a white Magen David below the caption: "you were born for peace".
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008 

See the whole collection on:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeevveez/sets/72157608679326292/

Gederah Bell

Magen David appears on the old Gederah Bell that was used to gather the citizens more than 100 years ago. The picture was shot by Ya’acov Shkolnik. Copyright: Ya’acov Shkolnik 2008

I thank Dobush from Kfar Aza and Oded Israeli for referring me to this historical image.   

Byzantine Hexagram Oil Lamp

Hexagram appears on Byzantine hexagram oil lamp from Shlomo Moussaieff collection.

Otto Friedrich August Meinardus,  a German Coptologist and pastor (1925 – 2005),  mentioned a few other Greco Roman terra cotta lamps  in his article "The Hexagram or the Magen David in Byzantine Art" (in the Bulletin of the Christian Archeological Society 8 (period IV)(1975-1976) p. 97-100):

Excavated in Jerash – Goodenough, I, 161; VII, 358; I:142; VII, 251

Excavated in Samaria – George Andrew Reisner et al, Harvard excavations in Samaria 1908-1910 Cambridge 1925 Vol. II Pl 96 c.

Excavated in Ephesus – Forschungen in Ephesus, osterreichisches Archaeologisches Institut, Wien, Vol. IV, 773, Pl. V

Excavated in Athenian Agora – Judith Perlzweig, the Athenian Agora – Lamps from the Roman Period first to seventh century, Princeton 1961, nos. 353, 2440. 

Magen David Logo Made From Hebrew Letters

Magen David logo made from the Hebrew Letters Lamed Vav Yod, which compose the name Levi of the owner of a private Ambulance in Jerusalem, Israel. Designing Magen David logos is prevalent, and you can see many such examples in different logos of the Maccabiah. 

The Anti-Semitism Demon

Size: 40X14X14 cm

Wood box, spring, wood Yellow Badge and acrylic paintings.

Anti-Semitism is hiding usually until it bursts unpredictably. Like demons that were hiding in a box. The Yellow Badge is bigger than the box so that once it’s out there’s no way to put it back. On the sides of the box are painted the flags of Italy, France, Germany, Poland and Holland. There wasn’t enough space for the flags of the other Anti-Semitic countries…

Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008