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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 426

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This year's new Hanukkah stamp was designed by Jewish artist and USPS art director Antonio Alcalá. (Courtesy of USPS. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg)
September 11, 2024, 12:27 pm
This year’s Hanukkah US postage stamp represents Jewish faith
Inspired by artists including Andy Warhol, art director Antonio Alcalá designs a stamp that honors the heritage of his Holocaust survivor family
By Jackie Hajdenberg
The United States Postal Service released a new stamp honoring Jewish Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on October 2, 2023. (USPS)
October 2, 2023, 7:05 pm
US Postal Service releases stamp of liberal Jewish icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg
RBG latest American Jew to be commemorated by USPS, following Richard Feynman, Rube Goldberg and Shel Silverstein
By PHILISSA CRAMER
A new series of Forever stamps in honor of Shel Silverstein released by the United States Postal Service. (USPS)
April 11, 2022, 8:34 pm
USPS honors Jewish poet Silverstein with ‘Giving Tree’ stamps
Children’s book author joins other American Jews honored by postal service, such as physicist Richard Feynman, inventor Rube Goldberg and comedian Fanny Brice
By Shira Hanau
Aracy Moebius de Carvalho Guimaraes Rosa. (Wikimedia Commons)
December 12, 2019, 11:14 pm
Postage stamp features Brazilian who helped rescue Jews from the Nazis
Aracy Moebius de Carvalho Guimaraes Rosa, known as ‘Angel of Hamburg,’ is one of the country’s two Righteous Among the Nations
By Marcus M. Gilban
Israeli stamps showing Jewish-American astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman, who brought a Torah scroll along with him into space. (Space Torah Project via JTA)
November 27, 2019, 5:16 am
Israeli stamps show first Torah flown in space
The commemorative stamps also feature Jeffrey Hoffman, first Jewish-American man to enter space in 1985
By JTA
A five shekel stamp that the Israel Postal Service is issuing for Israels 70th Independence Day celebrations. (Israel Postal Service spokesperson)
April 8, 2018, 11:03 pm
Special stamp tries to sum up 70 years of Israel’s achievements
Postal service to commemorate Israeli inventions, such as cherry tomatoes and USB memory sticks, and nod to fields of excellence: science, agriculture, academia, and business
By Sue Surkes
A new festive series of 2017 Canadian stamps features Hanukkah, Eid, and Diwali. (courtesy)
November 21, 2017, 12:17 pm
Canada Post introduces its first Hanukkah stamp
With bold geometric design, stamp dedicated to the Jewish Festival of Lights joins others honoring Eid and Diwali in highlighting country’s religious diversity
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Shimon Peres during an interview in the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, April 10, 2013. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images/JTA)
September 12, 2017, 2:55 am
Peres memoir to be released as Israel marks year since death
Completed weeks before his death, posthumously published autobiography details the former president’s journey from his small Polish village to the halls of Israeli power
By Jonah Mandel
US postal stamp of children's book 'The Snowy Day,' by Ezra Jack Keats. (US Postal Service via JTA)
September 8, 2017, 4:43 pm
Ezra Jack Keats’ ‘The Snowy Day’ featured on new US postage stamps
Jewish author, who changed his name due to post-WWII anti-Semitism, honored with stamp of beloved children’s’ book
By JTA
Students at the Foxboro Regional Charter School in Massachusetts pose with a Holocaust-related mural in 2016, created through the school's Holocaust Stamps Project (Courtesy)
April 24, 2017, 5:47 pm
More than 9.2-million canceled stamps later, Holocaust postage project recognized in Boston
For 8 years, students at a Massachusetts charter school have collected stamps to learn about the Shoah — and push back on bullying
By Matt Lebovic
Sir Nicholas Winton waits to be decorated with the highest Czech Republic's decoration, The Order of the White Lion, in Prague, October 28, 2014. Winton died July 1, 2015, at the age of 106. (AP/Petr David Josek, File)
March 16, 2016, 6:53 pm
Postage stamp issued in honor of ‘British Schindler’
Sir Nicholas Winton, who died earlier this year, helped rescue hundreds of children from Nazi-held Czechoslovakia
By JTA
Rabbi Albert Guigui appears on new Belgian stamp along with Imam Khalid Benhaddou and Bishop Johan Bonny. (Bpost/Lieve Blancquaert)
November 4, 2015, 1:53 pm
Rabbi, imam and bishop to adorn Belgian stamp
Postal authority aims to encourage unity with joint photo of religious leaders
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Sir Nicholas Winton waits to be decorated with the highest Czech Republic's decoration, The Order of the White Lion, in Prague, October 28, 2014. Winton died July 1, 2015, at the age of 106. (AP/Petr David Josek, File)
From the WebAugust 24, 2015, 11:04 pm
Royal Mail to honor ‘British Schindler’ with stamp
After 100,000 sign petition, Nicholas Winton to be featured in special edition if queen approves, says London Jewish News
Sir Nicholas Winton waits to be decorated with the highest Czech Republic's decoration, The Order of the White Lion, in Prague, October 28, 2014. Winton died July 1, 2015, at the age of 106. (AP/Petr David Josek, File)
August 5, 2015, 11:43 pm
Drive to immortalize ‘British Schindler’ on stamp gains steam
Jewish groups back recognition for Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of European Jewish children from Nazis
By JTA
Egypt's new stamp showing the Panama Canal instead of the Suez Canal (photo credit: twitter)
September 15, 2014, 6:46 pm
A canal by any other name
Egypt issues new stamp erroneously showing the Panama Canal instead of the Suez Canal
By ToI Staff
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