This blog (by Zeev Barkan) is dedicated to the Star of David, its history, its various meanings and usages in different cultures. It includes thousands of pictures of Star of David, six-pointed stars, hexagrams, Solomon's Seals, Magen Davids and yellow badges,and served as a resource for three books and four art exhibitions.
Israeli painter Sabina Saad ripped a hole in the cloth of the drawing. The hole that is ripped is in the form of yellow patch. It expresses the sorrow on loss of the six of millions Jews during the holocaust. According to Jewish custom mourners tear their outer garment. Every Jew, who was present while another Jew died, must tear his shirt from the front near to the neck.
Celebrating Israel @ 60, 3-4 year old kids at Netivot Hatorah kindergarten in Toronto, Canada, drew on Star of David shaped papers the seven days of Genesis. They were inspired by the seven paintings series of Israeli painter Dick Ben Dor. Started the project their teacher, Mindy Klein, who found photos of Ben Dor’s Genesis series on the Internet and brought them to the children.
Photo of the Hebrew word Shaddai (the Mighty) inside a Star of David painted on an old tile is courtesy of Mr. Abraham Madeisker.
Photo was taken at Trionfo Judaica Store, 9 Dorot Rishonim St., Jerusalem.
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Mindy Klein, a preschool teacher of 3-4 year olds at Netivot Hatorah Day School in Toronto, Canada spent numerous hours on the Internet researching Israeli artists and was instantly struck by the Genesis Series paintings of Israeli artist Dick Ben Dor, depicting the seven days of creation on star of David frames. She brought samples of a few selected artists for the children and they unanimously chose to focus on the artwork of Dick Ben Dor. The children were very enthusiastic about their creations influenced by Dick Ben Dor’s series and eventually there was an exhibition of these works on Yom Yerushalayim. Mindy Klein sent me this extremely cute photo .
Copyright: Mindy Klein 2008
Star of David in the center of a tray surrounded by the verse from Psalms "If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem". Jerusalem and the Star of David both represent the unity of the Jewish people and from this aspect are synonyms.
From Avraham Goren's private collection, Beit Zayit 38, 972779346197 972544826779
Yaakov Agam Sculpture bearing many Stars of David, which I photographed yesterday with the Knesset building in the background on 10 Diskin Street in Jerusalem. The proximity of the Knesset building to the statue from this point of view is due to the fact that the large valley between this two spots is hidden.
