Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. This Bench of the Week is ugly, but it is representative of the week that was, here in Jerusalem. . The wheels, handle and frame, and the ...

. Sweet-smelling hard wet rain fell for two minutes yesterday morning!!  Enough to whet my appetite for more. This was a treat because ...

A friend here is patient enough to pick and pickle capers.   Don't ask me how. I just remember seeing that it takes a lot of rinsing a...

Shalom to all. The link to Rabbi Dan's blog that somehow did not appear in my story yesterday is this: "Walking with the Desert ...

. ABC Wednesday meme has come full circle to the letter Z. I immediately thought to write about Zion or Zionism, of course. However, toda...

. The first time I saw this enormous monotonous building on Torah Mitzion Street, I really wondered about its history. Now I know a little m...

. Shalom friends. Just to clarify--in yesterday's post I just meant to state the facts about my summer season in Israel, as requested by...

. Robin , a blogger in Israel, challenged us to a Sunday meme about our version of summer. Well, here is what summer means for me: Yep, I...

. Here is my erstwhile little buddy on the wall, near the ceiling. He (or she) is quiet and eats mosquitoes. In short, a good ho...

Dark Paths . "He could have placed streetlamps along all the pathways of wisdom, but then there would be no journey. Who would discove...

. Would you trust this rickety-looking bench? Sighted outside the back entrance to a vintage apartment building in a back street of Jerusale...

A blue sky (for SkyWatch ) dawned this morning, the 17th day of Tamuz on our Hebrew calendar. Devout Jews around the world fast on this day....

. Remember those mysterious stacks of straw bales across the street that we all surmised about in last month's post ? And remember the...

. Y is our current letter on ABC Wednesday. Jerusalem has a Y name that works both in English and in Hebrew. Our grand old YMCA is affec...

Yay, we are spared the dreaded threatened 16.5% tax on fresh fruit and vegetables ! No less than 34 (!) readers around the world felt t...

. The Old City of Jerusalem is less than one square kilometer. Inside its city wall are four quarters: the Moslem Quarter, the Jewish, the ...

. The plaza in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City was pretty quiet when I sat down on one of the benches pictured here to eat my cheese sand...

. Happy Independence Day to all Americans, wherever you may be! This is the closest thing Jerusalem has to the Statue of Liberty. The st...

. Kittens need a bench to sit on (or under), too. This rugged bench is for RuneE at Visual Norway who invites us all to share our benches...

. The skyline of "new" Jerusalem (as opposed to the walled Old City of Jerusalem) is forever full of cranes, the one-legged kind. ...