Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. Today being Christmas for many Orthodox Christians, I am fondly remembering my visit a year ago to the beautiful St. Nikolas Russian O...

. An Orthodox priest filling the oil lamps above the tomb at the Holy Sepulchre.  A brave Benedictine nun positioned a ladder on...

. This tile art (which joins the Monday Mural meme) is on the outer wall of a government agency in Beer Sheva. If you click to enlarge...

. Meanwhile, back in the Jerusalem Hills for a weekend visit, I discovered a new painting  had been added to the church at St. John of t...

. I sometimes  hear about weeping icons and myrrh-gushing icons and miracle-working icons, but . . .  well . . . But what happens when...

. (All photos can be enlarged with two clicks.) M is for  mosaic-making monk in a monastery. He kindly let me watch how a modern...

. I always think that for my Christian friends Holy Saturday must be the saddest day of the religious year. As a Jew I can't even b...

. For OurWorld Tuesday and V-day at ABC Wednesday I show you some votive offerings that can be found all around Israel. Here is a stri...

. With two clicks the images will enlarge and reveal the details. These birds stand guard over something very rare and special to many ...

. For ABC Wednesday letter I day -- Icons illuminated by evening's last rays of sun. .

. Tonight the vigil of Pentecost begins. The happy festival has to be one of the strangest on the Christian calendar. Or so it appears to th...

.  As promised in yesterday's post about Jerusalem's Ethiopian Church, here are photos of some of the Ethiopian Christians and  ico...

. Behold Mary, fallen asleep, in the crypt of the Dormition Abbey. . Today, at the Dormition and at many other churches in Jerusalem and ar...

. For me it is the day before Pesach, a day for cleaning the cupboards of the last vestiges of bread, cookies, pasta, etc.--anything that ma...

. Please click to enlarge and immerse yourself in the photo. A peep into a Russian Orthodox convent and pilgrim hostel. . The iconic scene...

. T.S. Eliot and I wrote about Epiphany last Sunday . But today, January 6, is the day Christians in Israel celebrate the feast day. . The ...