Jerusalem Hills daily photo

RuneE, at his beautiful blog Visual Norway , is inviting us all to join in an informal meme on Fridays. The subject is benches . My frien...

Just across the valley, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center is constantly expanding. Never-ending construction on the hilltop. The ...

ATTENTION READERS ! Mea culpa --I am guilty of a big mistake in yesterday's post and offer my apology to you and to the Ecole Bibliq...

. The story of the urn begins at the prestigious École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem. On March 31 I was privileged to a...

. At the center of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre stands this edicule, and inside is the tomb where Jesus was buried (according to Cathol...

Come, have a look at the evening sky. Long before we get to see the moon, our neighbors over on top of the next mountain see it rising. T...

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-- While I nodded, ne...

Welcoming the Friday evening Sabbath at a friend's house. She has the custom of making a communal blessing over the challah . Baruk...

. Something new was added to my local sky and usual moon for today's SkyWatch Friday . Where did all these straw bales come from?! Th...

. Thanks for bearing with me for two days of heavy posts. I do appreciate your sage comments and encouraging words. So now for something l...

Today ABC Wednesday's T is for Turning Point Three. This is the code name for the week-long nation-wide preparedness targil (Hebre...

The bloggers of That's My World Tuesday invite you to their local world. . All this week Israel is even stranger than it is normally....

A Jewish foot in Judea happily no longer under the heel of Imperial Rome. . At Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem.

. Yesterday we celebrated the Jewish holiday of Shavuot on which it is traditional to eat dairy food, and LOTS of it. In the past week Israe...

Happy Shavuot holiday and Shabbat shalom, Sabbath peace, to you tonight. .

"On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, as well as a thick cloud on the mountain, and a blast of a trumpet s...

ABC Wednesday post. See if you can guess which letter the group is on today. ;-) Silly stripes on this girl's pants and top! Was she ...

. While exploring Jerusalem together, my visiting grandsons and I discovered this by chance! We just happened to wander into the library o...

. As a former translator I had to laugh at this rendering of the Hebrew term bor bitachon ! Normally it is translated "safety pit....