Jerusalem Hills daily photo

I just got home from Jerusalem. At 2:00 pm there was another bulldozer rampage, this time on and near King David Street. But this time no ...

. Mary Magdalene's feast day is celebrated tonight and tomorrow by Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholics, and Anglicans. No question, she is...

One last vestige of color tenaciously hanging on to life in our otherwise tan, white, and gray and thoroughly excavated archaeological site...

We discovered a sealed burial cave from 4,000 years ago. While sifting the earth that we dug out of the cave, something popped up in the sif...

I am presently doing archaeology on a site that is literally in the shadow of these giant cranes. Yesterday we diggers looked skyward, fasci...

Zichronam livracha--may their memory be for a blessing. Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser z"l, the reserve soldiers who were wounded and...

Filling and stacking sandbags to this height is one of the less fun things of archaeology. Here's where strong tall men save the day. ...

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(You might want to click on the second photo!) . Today was Shabbat Balak. This means the Torah portion for the week is Parashat Balak, which...

Sincere thanks to the D in D & T of Athens [Perspective] daily photo blog and to Catherine in Paris, at The Five of Us , for givin...

. Friday night--the quiet Sabbath night which leads into the Sabbath day has settled over Israel. Shabbat shalom to you all, Sabbath peace. ...

Since we have been on the subject of Israel's shrinking lakes for a few posts, thought I'd share this sunset. We drove from Tiberi...

. Here is a satellite image of Israel's two lakes. The normal level of the Sea of Galilee is 209 meters below sea level. I should have ...

Yam Kinneret is the Hebrew name for the Sea of Galilee. The picture was taken just after we drove out of Tiberias. It looks eastward to...

. This was the action in our little village yesterday. The old public building, long abandoned and roof caving in, has been fixed up in orde...

 . I lived once in Switzerland, surrounded by farm fields and vineyards. [sigh . . .]  Walking to Lake Neuchatel, I was delighted to see a...

Tiny but awesome , eh? For three nights in a row this creature (actual size) was glowing in exactly the same place on the concrete steps o...

Hey shy sunflower, show us your pretty face.

. HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, DEAR AMERICA ! In honor of America's Bicentennial, Jerusalem created the Liberty Bell Garden in 1976. A re...

Happy Independence Day to the United States of America, land of my birth, and to all you Americans out there. Long may the flags of America ...