Jerusalem Hills daily photo

Pictures of life in Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Hills. And since August 2013 also a look at the northern Negev, my new home.

Friday, November 1, 2019

Israel's brown desert

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. Brown goats, brownish sheep, a brown shepherdess, and the brown Negev desert.  Yep, BROWN is today's November 1 theme for City D...
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Sunday, June 9, 2019

I Dieci Comandamenti

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. Happy Shavuot today!  It's the Jewish festival celebrating the giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai (and also the grain harvest).  ...
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Saturday, June 1, 2019

A pink house

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. A pink house in Calabria, south Italy. Taken quickly from our moving bus. Yes, bella Italia!   I am in a writing seminar on Memory a...
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Friday, May 3, 2019

Anne Frank's memorial in the forest

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. In the final hour of daylight my town's touring group just made it to Ya'ar HaKedoshim, the Holocaust Martyrs Forest. On ...
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Thursday, February 28, 2019

Stopping to smell the flowers

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. On our monthly outing last week part of the group got out of the bus and walked into a meadow to marvel at the glorious blooming wildf...
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Saturday, December 29, 2018

Beware of butcher birds

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. You know you're not in Israel when the only potential danger from above is a BUTCHER BIRD attack!  I saw this sign while walking m...
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Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Wreath time in Australia

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. You know you're not in Israel when your Jewish grandson comes home with a Christmas wreath.  :)  Eyal's 5th grade class here i...
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Sunday, December 9, 2018

All 8 candles

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. Happy 8th and last night of Chanuka!  Grandkids Eyal and Libby lit the eight candles. I am spending a few months with my daughte...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Exercising the right to vote

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. I was happy to vote today! Israel had municipal elections and it was a yom shabbaton, a day off from work and school. Two of our to...
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Sunday, September 30, 2018

Change for the pushke

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. Almost full! Quite some time ago our town's Chabad rabbi gave me this pushke.  It was empty then. Rabbi Shneor's hope was t...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2018

The Book of Life is still open

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. Just before I shut down the computer for the next 26 hours of Yom Kippur, let me wish you a gmar chatima tova. May you be written ...
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Thursday, September 13, 2018

Fun in the park

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. Fun at the big annual AACI Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel picnic at a Beer Sheva park. .
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Monday, September 10, 2018

The honey tower

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. Happy new year, everyone! May the year that begins today, 5779 AM (Anno Mundi, "since the creation of the world"), be a goo...
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Saturday, September 1, 2018

Teach

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. Torah was given to teach us.  And today's City Daily Photo Theme Day 's focus is TEACH . Pirkei Avot 4:15 in the Talmud...
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Thursday, August 23, 2018

Sheep, then and now

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. These sheep are most likely on the table now during this week of Id il Adha, the Muslim Festival of Sacrifice. Click to enlarge the ph...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018

New Domino's Pizza scooters

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Brand new, still partly wrapped additions to the Domino's fleet in Beer Sheva! Soon they will get their blue boxes mounted on th...
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Saturday, August 11, 2018

Beer Sheva billboard work in progress

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. Don't you love to watch guys tearing down the old ads and putting up new ones?!  I almost never pay attention to billboards (...
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Wednesday, August 8, 2018

The cat with only one ear

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. Happy International Cat Day to this wary one-eared long-tailed cat. I locked glances with him outside a Beer Sheva restaurant. . De...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018

The Great Spirit's gift to us

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. SPIRIT is the City Daily Photo group's theme day topic . This disintegrating trunk of a burnt tree on a white boulder reminds me...
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Saturday, June 30, 2018

Red roses in the green vineyards

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. Roses planted in a vineyard?? If you are from rural Italy or France or California you probably know about this tradition. But it was...
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