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Postage gets its due in museum show

You really don’t want to go to a show where the artist is just mailing it in — unless the artist is Shirley Familian. Her first solo show, “19,275 Stamps” — her count of the number of stamps it took to create the works now on display at the Craft and Folk Art Museum — not only bears the marks of being mailed in, but consequently, canceled as well.

African stamps honor Jews who fought apartheid

Every year, Jews around the world tell the story of the Israelites’ liberation from slavery in roughly the same way. And every year, familiar props help bring that story to life.

African countries honor apartheid-fighting Jews with stamps

Three African countries issued a set of commemorative postal sheets remembering famous Jews who fought apartheid in South Africa. Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gambia issued the three black-and-white postal stamp sheets at the beginning of March.

Stamp of Approval

A picture may be worth 1,000 words — but it will only cost you 37 cents. This month the U.S. Postal Service is issuing American Scientists commemorative stamps honoring two of the keenest Jewish minds of the 20th century: physicist Richard P. Feynman and mathematician John von Neumann.

Campers Display the Write Stuff

Letters from Jewish summer camps have not changed much since 1963, when Allan Sherman recorded the classic song, \”Hello Muddah! Hello Faddah!\” Kids still write about what they had for lunch, what their cabin is like and their bunkmates. Though a national Web site allows one-way e-mails from parents to kids, Jewish summer camps still expect campers to write their folks the old-fashioned way — with pen, paper, stamps and envelopes.

Philatelists Give Israel Stamp of Approval

Alan Beals started collecting stamps as a boy. In the \’80s, when a flood of new issues from the U.S. Postal Service swamped his enthusiasm, Beals stumbled into the obscure niche of Judaic philatelists.

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