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in response to reader comment: Menorah is secular?

Submitted by Raymond Knowles, Dec 13, 2007 11:16

Jewish tombs during the Roman period did not have a Star of David to indicate that the person buried there was Jewish. The symbol chosen by the family of that person to indicate Jewishness was the Menhorah. The Star of David is actually the symbol of the Zionist movement.

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