#magen david

[therationaldispatch]

Within the Magen David, every letter of the Hebrew alphabet is found:

[necrodollanganger]

I cannot emphasize enough how important it is as an anti zionist to not allow israel to be your main association with the magen david. If you see a magen david and your first thought is israel that is something you should actively be unlearning. The magen david is a common universal symbol of judaism, it doesn't belong to the flag of a colonialist project started less than a hundred years ago.

[brykman]

Photographer Chris Levitan captured a rare and mesmerizing moment involving Capella, the brightest star in the constellation Auriga. Without any editing, his lens recorded an intriguing figure of double inverted triangles, likely caused by the diffraction of light in an ice crystal that passed through the exact angle as soon as the camera clicked.

Capella, with its apparent magnitude of +0.24, is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, positioning itself as a cosmic beacon 42.2 light-years away. Its proximity to the Celestial North Pole makes it even more special for astronomers and sky lovers alike.

[notaplaceofhonour]

Bring Them All Home

[ta-chazei]

Garden at Kiever Synagogue, Toronto

August 2025

[koenji]

A Sephardic Torah manuscript with golden Stars of David, Soria/Tudela 1300–1312. ✡

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Hébreu 21, fol. 98v.

From: Clockwise–Counterclockwise: Calligraphic Frames in Sephardic Hebrew Bibles and Their Roots in Mediterranean Culture by Dalia-Ruth Halperin. x

[h4ganah]

On a given day I am either

"I must never avoid being visibly jewish in public or the antisemites win"

or

"If anyone notices I am jewish I WILL die"

[rachamemories]

I figured I'd share on this blog first that these pendants are all up for sale before the main blog..

They'll likely ship out late next week as a head's up- needed to get a bit more lacquer to protect the patina. Was able to get the photos and listing all ready and people had been asking about them so figured I'll let whoever wants them claim them!

I'll be making more magens and havdalah windows in the next batch, so if you wanted one of those there'll be more soon!

Thank you ❤️