Israeli Diabetes Association

The logo of the Israeli Diabetes Association is made of the first Hebrew letters of its name: Aleph, Yod, Lamed which compose a Star of David 

Another Jewish Dreamcather

A small Star of David inside a bigger one inside a circle.I already wrote about a Jewish Dreamcatcher, but this one is a present from my son and I hung it above my bed.

Protest Against Labeling

Photo of Star of David print is courtesy of Israeli artist Cheli Ben Hur. Cheli told me that from her POV it is a protest against labeling - she thought about the Nazis marking the Jews with a yellow badge as if they were not human beings, but things.

Cheli is married to the son of Rachel Ben Hur whose works are also published on this blog.

Copyright: Cheli Ben Hur 2007
Rachel389@walla.com

Paper Sculpture

Photo of paper sculpture Star of David on a Ketuba is courtesy of Karny Rivlin Vorona 

What is Paper Sculpture?

There were traces of paper sculpture as early as the year 105 AD. That was around the time when paper became known and available to everyone. Before that, it wasn't made in large quantities. With this new product coming out, creativity was sparked in the minds of people, and small paper sculptures were turned into masterpieces.

Copyright: Karny Rivlin Vorona 2007

This is the first time I see a Star of David paper sculpture in Jewish art ad that’s why I decided to include this splendid work on my blog. The script is made in micrography.

Yigal Bin-Nun, Unstitched Star of David

Photography-art showing unstitched Star of David is courtesy of Israeli artist and historian Dr. Yigal Bin-Nun who wrote to me that it was exhibited in 1988 in Herzliya Museum and these days it is exhibited in Ein Hod Museum as part of a video art work titled “one from here and one from there”.
Copyright: Dr. Yigal Bin-Nun 2007
Dr.Yigal Bin-Nun participated in many solo and group exhibitions and was also curator and art manager in many exhibitions.
Yigal Bin-Nun
92 rue Saint Maur
75011 Paris
yigbin@yahoo.fr

Silver Dreidel

Photo of this original Star of David silver dreidel is courtesy of Israeli designer Yael Heineberg. It was hand made, but nowadays it is manufactured from zinc alloy and sold around the world.

Yael is very versatile: she is a goldsmith, a jewelry designer, a painter, an art teacher and she is instructing couples who are going to be married how to mould their wedding rings all by themselves from wax and later she forges the rings from gold.
Copyrights: Yael Heineberg
caspion@bezeqint.net
972-97485015
972544525559
Moshav Bnei Zion

Benjamin Peleg, Yellow Badges and Chessboards

Photo is courtesy of Artist Benjamin Peleg. It is one of a series that deals with the yellow badges and the Holocaust.
Title: Shoah - 6
Size: 40x40 Cm
Acrylic on canvas
We see Jewish prisoners in Nazi death camps along with chessboards, which represent life. The artist expresses his POV and says that in WWW Jews were pieces on an un-understandable chessboard.
Artist and curator Dick Ben Dor wrote about him (in Hebrew- translation is mine):

Benjamin Peleg deals in most of his paintings in the holocaust and he emphasizes, by using numbers, the endless list of victims; at the same time his usage of colors adds strength to the work.

Copyright: Benjamin Peleg 2007