Thank you so much for your kind words. I get so angry when I hear of the media bias when they report on what is happening in the Middle East. I was blessed to have found this blog, and a few other sources of information.

The Star of David is actually not a religious symbol, but rather a tribal or even military/royal symbol (“the shield of David”). So while you might well confuse people who assume you must be Jewish to wear it, you wouldn’t OFFEND them. I personally (as a Jew) would – like your customer – appreciate knowing that a Christian would choose to wear it out of solidarity with the Jewish people.

Could anyone please explain to me how to get the general populace to understand this simple fact? And that the Koran also tells them to murder Christians, as I understand it?

I recently had a long conversation via email with a man who insists that this is a lie and hateful toward Muslims. No matter where I sent him on the web, he called them all haters.

I am a Christian who wears a star of David to show my support of the Jews. One of my customers noticed, and asked if I was a Jew. When I explained and asked if she was offended, she said no, she appreciated it. Is that the general sentiment, or should I not be wearing it? I don’t actually run into that many Jewish people where I live, and I’d like to know that I am not offensive.

And I have been told that its pronunciation of Hebrew may come closest to the original.
Amopng other things, the Yemenites distinguish between Gimel without dagesh and Jimel with a dagesh, Dalet without a dagesh and Dhalet (like the soft “th” in “this”), veth and Vav (which they pronounce Waw), and Tav with a dagesh and Thav (like the hard “th” in theorem) without a dagesh — which Ashkenazim pronounce “s” and sefaradim as “t”.

Now, how do we get them out of there and into Israel?

Yep, typo, should read “dagger”, niot “danger”, and jambiyah not jampiyah.

I’m betting typo — they mean dagger, not danger. Jambiyah is a curved, middle eastern dagger, and the B and P are sometimes interchanged when transliterating Arabic. (My Israeli friends sometimes joke about “Balestinians”, who supposedly pronounce peh as though it were a bet.) This would make sense, given that Jews, being Dhimmis, are not allowed to own or carry weapons, even for self defense.

For a picture of a Jambiyah, see http://www.uniquities.co.uk/acatalog/Jambiyah.html