Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. For ABC Wednesday , D is for Dina in 3-D glasses. Dozens of glasses wait for visitors and pupils who come to the Open Museum in O...

. Merisi of Vienna chose this month's City Daily Photo Theme Day theme. Vienna, coffeehouse capital of the civilized world! --  Me...

. Ta-da!  It opens up! Lihi, the nice guide of the Open Museum at Omer Industrial Park, is proud to show us this special microcar. ...

. The United Nations decided that January 27, the day on which Auschwitz was liberated, should be the International Day in memory of the...

. Granddaughter Libby with Tu BiShvat goodies from pre-kindergarten (here in Meitar, 2014). Dried fruit of the Land on a skewer! Today...

. Tu BiShvat, the nice Jewish holiday marking the new year or birthday of trees, begins tonight. Years ago, before the time of refriger...

. This has nothing to do with Israel, but . . . here goes. Turns out that today is National Handwriting Day in some English-speaking n...

. Can you remember the last time you drew circles with a compass? From many decades ago I remember the sharpness of the metal point and...

. As promised, here we are at the Open Museum which is part of the hi-tech industrial park near Omer, in the Negev. This sculpture ...

. As an old Yiddish proverb says, The world consists of cogs: one depends on the other. Di velt iz a hekeleh: ainer darf tsum anderen....

. Beer Sheva's new Double Helix bridge was officially opened last week! Half a year ago train traffic was shut down for one weeken...

. Last June I showed you the new pedestrian bridge that had just been lifted and placed over the railroad tracks in Beer Sheva. This w...

. My bus drove very slowly through miles of dense fog at 7:45 this morning. When I came out of the university after an all-day archaeol...

. A is for apple juice, straight out of the apple press, in Austria! Helping with the apple picking and pressing was a favorite Arbe...

. What is a funny old way of saying "a distant relation" in Yiddish? Dem ferds baytsh-shtekls potkeve     דעם פערדס בייטש-ש...

. Eyal, my sweet grandson in Australia, can help illustrate another Yiddish proverb. If a stone stays in one place, it becomes overgro...

. I snapped this yesterday from my bus going home from Beer Sheva. Bedouin men were lined up along the highway in a small demonstration...

. Z is for zoo, the Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem. And another old Yiddish saying: With time, even a bear can be taught to dance.    אַ...

. In a nice shop for cooking and baking equipment in Vienna. At the Christmas markets I saw plenty of chestnuts being roasted. But thi...

. Fiaker carriage horses in Vienna. And another Yiddish saying: If a horse had anything to say, he would speak up.  ווען דאָס פֿערד ...