Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. In Jerusalem's Old City last week I peeked through the locked gate of the Mosque of Omar and was surprised to see this sign in the...

. M is for mosques!  This one has TWO minarets. On Saturday our Arabic teacher took us to the nearby Negev Bedouin town of Lakiya. ...

. Mazal tov to James on the 4th anniversary of his Weekend Reflections meme! Here is the minaret and dome of Beer Sheva's histori...

. In the Muristan area of the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, just opposite the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,  you will fin...

. My two visitors and I went up to the top of the Mount of Olives for the panoramic view! There were even a few clouds on the western horizo...

. The domes and minarets and the long flat building are the Al-Aqsa mosque up on (what we call) the Temple Mount. More than 100,000 Musl...

. Continuing our visit to the Circassian village of Kfar Kama in the Galilee (starting with yesterday's post ) . . . Here is a moder...

. I got lost in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood a few years ago when many parts of Jerusalem were still new to me. What surprised me that d...

. Sky-watching did not start with our meme SkyWatch Friday . The apostles were doing it on this day almost two thousand years ago. The Ne...

. It was 8 o'clock in the morning but already a line of tourist buses was parked along the southern wall of the Old City. The driver st...

. Morning's first rays as seen from the roof of Ecce Homo Convent -- what could be better? . I love every part of Jerusalem, but the 0...

. For the sake of Louis la Vache's Sunday Bridges , I am going to call this weird contraption a bridge. As a result of the combined ef...

. The last two weeks have been hard on Jerusalem. For eights days straight we have had an unseasonable heat wave and several days of bad dus...

. A mid-afternoon late December sky in Jerusalem. Shirt-sleeves weather. Unnormal. For Sky Watch Friday , where many bloggers' skies...

. Shalom, welcome to the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City! . (Photos enlarge with a click.) And just because the Wall is the only r...

. Night in the Old City. Al-Aksa has a dome of black lead, but illuminated at night it shines like gold. . To learn more about the world...