Star of David More Widely Recognized Than Twitter Icon – Breaking News – Forward.com

Nearly nine in ten Americans, or 87% of people surveyed, correctly identified the Star of David as a Jewish symbol, a new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People and Press showed. The Twitter birdie, on the other hand, was recognized by 79% respondents to the poll as the social media company’s corporate logo.These findings come from an updated version of the Pew Center’s regular News IQ Quiz, which seeks to identify the level of public knowledge about political, and popular issues using pictures, maps, graphics and symbols. This version of the study was conducted online January 18-24, 2013, among a random sample of 1,041 adults.

A previous version of the quiz was conducted in October 2011.The question about religious symbols asked respondents to choose between four symbols associated with various religions and identify the one associated with Judaism. Among the choices were the Crescent and Star of Islam, the Christian cross, and the Om traditionally associated with Hinduism.


Source: Star of David More Widely Recognized Than Twitter Icon – Breaking News – Forward.com

 

A Salvaged Star of David at the NY Sanitation Department’s East Harlem Warehouse

A Timeline Of Trash Lives On In The Sanitation Department’s East Harlem Warehouse:

From the outside the building looks like a warehouse. It’s owned by New York’s Sanitation Department in East Harlem. On the second floor decades of trash come to life; from a Furbie graveyard to Pez dispensers and Troll dolls. There are also typewriters, art, political memorabilia, and other odds and ends in the collection that has been Nelson Molina’s passion project.

For him collecting items from the trash began at age 9...Molina said he’s never surprised by what people throw out.

"The actual star of David is made from the steel from one of the World Trade Centers," he said. Molina isn’t quite sure what the value of all the items is.

"It’s worth a lot of money. I know it is, but I just wouldn’t know," he said. Because one man’s trash is Molina’s treasure.

- A Timeline Of Trash Lives On In The Sanitation Department’s East Harlem Warehouse, CBS News, CBSlocal.com