Jerusalem Hills daily photo

Jerusalem Hills Daily Photo is now in Australia, until early February, visiting family. Seems like this is a good time to be out of Israel, ...

Shalom SkyWatchers. After two days and two nights in planes, today I safely completed the journey from Israel to Sydney, Australia. How beau...

Midnight mass in Nazareth will be broadcast live in half an hour on Israel TV and on the Internet. You can go to http://iba.org.il/media/ ...

Wise men with gifts. Welcome to W at ABC Wednesday . . Merry Christmas to all the Christian friends.

Shalom everyone and happy holiday. Tonight at home I lit the second candle of Chanuka. The photos are from 2006, the sixth night of Chanuk...

Chanuka began at nightfall tonight with the lighting of the first candle. The candle at the left is the shamash , the servant candle which l...

Donkeys are the best! This unique manger scene inside a warm donkey was made in Peru. A very moving telling of the trip to and from Bethl...

Latroun Monastery, home to Trappist monks, is the only place in Israel I have ever seen poinsettias growing. These are pictures from last D...

Good-bye smoggy Tel Aviv, hello blue Mediterranean Hello dreamy evening sky over Europe . Well, these shots are from my short flight to Sw...

. Israel is a leading dairy production country. Glass milk bottles went out of use about 1960. Now we have plastic bags. In larger store...

. Yay, only four days until Chanuka, the Festival of Lights! In Jerusalem's lovely Beit Ticho small museum is the late Dr. Avraham Ticho...

Our little moshav-village in the Jerusalem Hills (aka Judean Hills) believes in recycling. The "cage" next to the little grocery s...

What a tragedy, but this time not terrorism. A group of travel agents and families from St. Petersburg had just landed in a small airport no...

These murals are scenes of real shops and the real people you can find in Jerusalem's big outdoor fruit and vegetable market, Shuk Macha...

A grayish day in Jerusalem today but the clouds produced no rain. From the bus I saw a man in a boom lift, putting up a streetlight. The M...

Jerusalem's big, bustling, bright Central Bus Station is full of life, and sometimes even surprises! This stilt-walker was working tog...

Thought it would be fun to share all the animals I saw in one day in Jerusalem. Can you find the little sparrow on the huge Herodian stones...

Just when I was despairing of every finding anything in Jewish Jerusalem to post about Christmas decorations . . . voila! One shop over i...

Just before 4:00 p.m. the sun still warmed the four tall eucalyptus trees down at our local monastery. Then only the colored church windows...

At the wise prodding of readers like Australian Ann , today I actually entered the Iran Bazaar that I showed the outside of yesterday. M...