Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. Have you ever seen a fish tank hanging on the wall?! I had never even heard of a wall aquarium. Yesterday I saw my first one, right...

. Another impressive place in the German Colony, on Lloyd George Street, is the big convent of the Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo. Solid,...

. In my wanderings yesterday near the German Colony neighborhood, I was delighted to see the progress that has gone forward in the creation...

. Shalom again! I walked along some Jerusalem streets today in the German Colony and Bak'a. Streets with names like Bethlehem R...

. Verses 6-7 of Psalm 82 are shown at the beginning of the film Of Gods and Men . The movie's title (in the original French,  Des homm...

. My street is narrow, cracked,  and boring and has no sidewalk. Like all the streets in our small  moshav on the hill. No one of the ...

. Photo of Pundak Ein Kerem from its own webpage I'm getting the feeling that my humor in the previous post took a wrong turn....

. Would this sign, on this car, entice you to go eat at the restaurant it advertises? It is parked next-door to Pundak Ein Kerem  (Ein...

. I always wondered what the top of the old mosque looked like, the one built over Mary's Spring in Ein Kerem. So I trudged up the ...

. So which would you chose--to sit on the benches or on the exercise machines? They were installed a few years ago and I have never...

. A blog-friend from Scandinavia came to visit today! We walked down to the local monastery. I took this shot through the church doors...

. Beautiful Psalm 81 is for the Sunday PsalmChallege inspired by brave Robert Geiss at daily athens photo.   Please pay him a visit. ~~...

.  An ancient capital reflected in the glass ramp that leads to the Church of the Flagellation,  which was originally built by the ...

. Have no illusions, it is not the path to peace. But today's ceasefire is a welcome relief from the week-long conflict. Today th...

. The bad news: a bomb went off in a Tel Aviv bus today. The good news: the bus was not crowded, the bomb was small, no one was killed....

. S is for second scary siren for ABC Wednesday . This afternoon the Red Alert sirens went off again in my village and in Jerusalem a...

. Two strong things came together today. No, I don't refer to Iron Dome intercepting a Grad missile. Instead, the two things were in ...

. Operation Pillar of Defense is our new tram's first experience with hostilities. The Jerusalem  light rail has only been up and runn...

. The Psalms take on added power during times of danger and of fierce fighting, like  now. For Psalm Challenge, here is Psalm 80 . (My ...

.   The air raid sirens went off in my village, and in Jerusalem, and in her surrounding communities late this afternoon--for the firs...