Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. Now that I live in the desert in southern Israel, away from Jerusalem, it is hard to get fresh Christian photos for the blog. So la...

. When I still lived near Jerusalem (sigh . . . ), I loved wandering alone in the Old City, getting lost, and seeing what I would discover ...

. A poster on the door of the children's section of Beer Sheva library. It is one of the Steimatzky Books ads from a recent campaig...

. I was happy to discover the Joseph Meyerhoff Public Library in Beer Sheva. Interesting system: to borrow one book you leave a 50 shekel ...

. As you may know, my Aussie family is staying in Israel for seven months and they rent a house walking distance from me in Meitar. Friday...

.  Meitar, where I now live,  has a public library!  Yay! The library building was built in 2003 with the help of over a million sh...

. Today I had to meet a friend who works at Yad Vashem, our Holocaust memorial. Here is the Visitor's Center where we had coffee a...

. Back in March I wandered around the old Jerusalem neighborhood  Musrara for the first time and fell in love with it. I remember focu...

. I am back now from tonight's Passover dinner, celebrated this year with just a few women friends. I led the seder--for the first tim...

. So there I was, your nice-Jewish-girl blogger, sitting in the Immaculata Hall among all these  Franciscan friars and a smattering of n...

. Be sure to enlarge this one! (you know, one click, then another) Every year at this time, Megillat Esther is unrolled and read out...

. Which strikes your fancy more--the refined style of artistic leather binding or the back-to-nature earthy binding? Both were disp...

. As you may guess from the title,  ABC Wednesday is starting another round through the ABCs today, for the 12th time! New York artis...

. This man has to have the most exciting photography job in the world! Above the world, actually. He makes photos of the earth below while ...

. For PsalmChallenge here is a dramatic painting illustrating Psalm 52. You can enlarge the photo below and read the text in English and He...

. With the persistent encouragement of Daily Athens Photo's Robert Geiss, the weekly PsalmChallenge has already covered one third of th...

. We have come a long way since this Alexandra iron handpress was made in London in 1730. It has a place of honor in the front window of our...

. Jerry the Dragon's spiky back and tail cast nice long shadows for Shadow Shot Sunday . . The dragon lives in Liberty Bell Park. (I...

. I blogged about Israel's National Library before, with its stained glass windows (some of the largest ever made) that show Isaiah'...

. When one needs strength, consolation, encouragement, hope, or help--the 23rd Psalm is the best psalm to know by heart. Or so I have found...