Israel Stamp Reviews

Today was the last day of my school's winter break. I woke up feeling little in the way of pressure to do anything or go anywhere. Instead, I fired up the laptop and cycled robotically through the usual sequence of news and social media sites. Nothing particularly dramatic had happened while I was alseep. On a whim, I visited the Israel Post website to check if there was any information about next month's new stamp issues. There was not. There was, however, a new update in the "Announcements" section: " Country added for overseas delivery -- United Arab Emirates ." This was dramatic news. And seeing as no one else was covering it, I shared it via the Israel Stamp Reviews Facebook page . A couple hours passed and Niall Murphy of the International Moldovan Philatelic Society and FILABRAS replied wondering, "Who will write to who and about what?" It was a good question. Of the people living in Israel who had connections in the UAE, how many sti...

Hobby , identity and community are distinct but closely related concepts. The distinction is one of experience: a hobby is a thing we do, an identity is a thing we have, and a community is a thing of which we are a part. The relationship, meanwhile, is one of progression: engaging in a hobby can form part of a person's identity, and people with common identities tend to cling to one another and form communities. Not everyone who collects stamps will identify as a stamp collector, and not everyone who identifies as a stamp collector will join a philatelic community; however, the distance from point A to point B and from point B to point C is shorter now than at any time in the past. What has shortened the distance has been the rise of social media, because social media has increased the visibility of identities and made accessing communities virtually effortless. Case in point: Had it not been for social media -- specifically YouTube, and more specifically Graham Beck's Ex...

Festivals 5781: Modern Jewish Art -- Mandalas is a set of three stamps issued by Israel Post on 8 September 2020 on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Face valued at ₪2.50, ₪7.40 and ₪8.30, each stamp in the set features a unique mandala design centering on a theme from the Rosh Hashanah liturgy. The theme of the ₪2.50 stamp, whose dominant color is red, is kingship ; ₪2.50 corresponds to the postage rate for a domestic unregistered 0-50g letter. The theme of the ₪7.40 stamp, whose dominant color is blue, is remembrances ; ₪7.40 corresponds to the postage rate for international 0-100g airmail to Group 3 countries (Denmark, Portugal and Sweden). The theme of the ₪8.30 stamp, whose dominant colors are green and gold, is shofars ; ₪8.30 corresponds to the postage rate for international 0-100g airmail to Group 1 countries (United States, Ireland, Norway, Finland, Canada, South Korea, and Thailand). The tab below each...

The " From Jaffa to Tel-Aviv and from Olinda to Recife " (henceforth: " Israel-Brazil ") stamp was jointly issued by Israel Post and Brazil's Correios on 8 September 2020. Face valued at ₪11.80, corresponding to the postage rate for a domestic registered 0-50g letter, the stamp depicts two stretches of coastline, one on either side of a palm tree that splits the stamp down the middle: the coastline on the left starts at Olinda in Brazil and extends south to Recife, and the coastline on the right starts from Jaffa in Israel and extends north to Tel Aviv . The tab below the stamp proper features the flags of Brazil and Israel. Green and blue are the stamp's prominent colors. It was designed by Ronen Goldberg (רונן גולדברג) and Lidia Marina Hurovich Neiva , with input from Laís Botler of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. ככר אוסוולדו ארניה, ירושלים צילום: אמיר אפסאי PRACA OSWALDO ARANHA DEDICADA AO NOBRE POVO BRASILEIRO CONFEDERAÇÃO ISRAELITA DO BRASIL...