Star of David

pillow-Hexagram-ChristianPhoto is courtesy of gimpykatk who published it on Flickr where you can follow the instructions and knit one for yourselves...
gimpykatk wrote to me:

I have just started out designing pictures to be knitted on dishcloths, and it was requested that I make a Star of David. I struggled with this for a couple weeks, trying and failing. Then as I was praying one night I clearly saw the pattern and was immediately able to graph it out. I believe it was God who gave me the ability to see this. I am a Christian, but by saying that, I believe I am a Jew by adoption. I believe Jesus was a Jew and I as a Gentile receiving Him became a Jew by adoption.

Merkabah At Night
Photo of Merkabah At Night is courtesy of The Passing Strange who published it on Flickr and who wrote to me the following:

I am living in Israel right now, and went to a concert of an older folk musician. His name is Schlomo Bar. It was on a settlement called Kadita. A small concert, but a very nice vibe. The stage was set up with this giant star of David hanging over it.

Glass-Work-jewish-starPhoto is courtesy of CreationsInGlass who published it on flickr and who wrote to me the following:

My Mom & I work together to sell handmade stained and fused glass pieces- Mom makes the pieces and I help her to sell them, she made the Star of David as a custom request several years ago, and it has been popular so each year she makes more to sell on her website.

Without this explanation I don't know how many of you could know what we see here...Anyhow it looks cool!

Pumpkin-hexagramPhoto is courtesy of Jakub Toborek who published it on Flickr and who was kind enough to answer my question about the story behind it:

The story seems to be one of silliness, rather than anything else. At a pumpkin carving party for holloween the latecomer didn't have any ideas, they decided on the symbol in order to "stick it to Hltler", which made an appearance as a shot in the head pumpkin. The two people involved I had never met before, though they were some of the friendliest, as well as a strangest, people I had ever met.

jesus-hexagramPhoto of Star of David composed by the letters of the word Jesus is courtesy of Shellac Fanatic who published it on Flickr and who wrote to me that he went to a

local church. One of the minister's wives was wearing that necklace. It was so unusual that I had to snap a photo. She bought it in Israel, in Bethlehem.

Sunset-hexagramPhoto of the sun in the shape of the Star of David is courtesy of "Enamored_With_Horses" who published it on Flickr.
Another Flickr member called "snowowl81" referred me to this photo.
A year ago I saw a similar photo of the sun above a Nazi concentration camp, which has another meaning but couldn't contact the owner of the copyrights...

Bulgarian Jewish star

Photo of 1939  Bulgarian Jews (in front of the Synagogue of Svistov - town on the Danube River) holding a Star of David sign is courtesy of Stephanie Comfort who published it on Flickr 

P.S.

I got an interesting letter from Stephanie and she let me quote it here:

This last May was my 28th trip to Israel. I have only missed one year since '77 .... I was in Eilat when Sadat came. I used to work with the late Yigael Shiloh at the City of David Dig from '81 thru '84 and then at Tel Dora with Prof. Efraim Stern for 4 yrs. while studying in the Summers with Prof. Jim Fleming of Hebrew U. I, also, used to lead tours (as a volunteer for the Zionist Org. of America) to Israel for several Summers. This May I'm bringing 15 or 16 friends with us for your 60th - arriving on the 14th of May. My first Israeli postcards were purchased about 20 yrs. ago in a box of 100 from the Museum of the Diaspora. At about the same time the Museum had a show of photos of the Jews of Kaifeng, China which began my interest in Jews from all over the World. My first stereoviews were purchased about 15 yrs. ago in Tel Aviv in a used book store on Allenby (I now have over 9,000 with sets of Palestine/Israel) - my neighborhood there was around the new Opera House building.