Sunday, December 14, 2008

Gold hexaram Beer Star

Dobush from Kfar Aza sent me this Israeli beer label with a gold hexagram, which stands for brewery, and continues a Medieval  tradition of selling beer under the emblem of the beer guild.
Copyright: Dobush 2008

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Brewery Door in Brooklyn

Brewery Door in Brooklyn

Picture of a Brewery Star on a brewery door in Brooklyn, New York is courtesy of “iandavid” from Flickr. Every Star of David is a six-pointed star, but not every six-pointed star is a Star of David.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Anti-Semitic Yugoslavian stamp 1941

Yugoslavian Postal Services under Nazi occupation issued in 22.10.1941 a series of anti-Jewish stamps and posters to mark the opening of the "Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition" in Belgrade [22.10.1941- 19.01.1942]. In this stamp we see the hand of a Nazi strangling “the Jewish snake”, which caries numerous stars of David.
Courtesy of Stephanie Comfort from Flickr.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Holland Jude stamp

Holland issued in 1985 four stamps that mark the 40th year since the end of WWII. This stamp carries the yellow badge with its  'Jude' caption, and another stamp shows a cemetery with Star of David on a headstone. Picture is courtesy of Oded Israeli

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

How Do You Draw a Star of David?

Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008 

Monday, December 08, 2008

Happy New Year Card 1919

Seven Herzl’s Stars of David along with two red Stars of David of Magen David Adom (on the right margins) on a Happy New Year Card sent in 23.9.1919 from the Hebrew Battalion [Gdud Ha’iveri] at Egypt.

Copyright: Oded Israeli 2008

Rabin’s Murder

Magen David at the right bottom of this painting by Oded Israeli who wrote to me:

When my P.M. Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, I painted in a row 12 paintings and thus expressed my anger. This is one of them.

Copyright: Oded Israeli 2008