Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. You know you're not in Israel when the only potential danger from above is a BUTCHER BIRD attack!  I saw this sign while walking m...

. You know you're not in Israel when your Jewish grandson comes home with a Christmas wreath.  :)  Eyal's 5th grade class here i...

. Happy 8th and last night of Chanuka!  Grandkids Eyal and Libby lit the eight candles. I am spending a few months with my daughte...

. I was happy to vote today! Israel had municipal elections and it was a yom shabbaton, a day off from work and school. Two of our to...

. Almost full! Quite some time ago our town's Chabad rabbi gave me this pushke.  It was empty then. Rabbi Shneor's hope was t...

. Just before I shut down the computer for the next 26 hours of Yom Kippur, let me wish you a gmar chatima tova. May you be written ...

. Fun at the big annual AACI Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel picnic at a Beer Sheva park. .

. Happy new year, everyone! May the year that begins today, 5779 AM (Anno Mundi, "since the creation of the world"), be a goo...

. Torah was given to teach us.  And today's City Daily Photo Theme Day 's focus is TEACH . Pirkei Avot 4:15 in the Talmud...

. These sheep are most likely on the table now during this week of Id il Adha, the Muslim Festival of Sacrifice. Click to enlarge the ph...

Brand new, still partly wrapped additions to the Domino's fleet in Beer Sheva! Soon they will get their blue boxes mounted on th...

. Don't you love to watch guys tearing down the old ads and putting up new ones?!  I almost never pay attention to billboards (...

. Happy International Cat Day to this wary one-eared long-tailed cat. I locked glances with him outside a Beer Sheva restaurant. . De...

. SPIRIT is the City Daily Photo group's theme day topic . This disintegrating trunk of a burnt tree on a white boulder reminds me...

. Roses planted in a vineyard?? If you are from rural Italy or France or California you probably know about this tradition. But it was...

. Last week's farm pictures from the middle of Israel. They are snapped through the window of a bus, so it's better if you clic...

. I got to participate in a lovely iftar this week, my first! No, it wasn't in this big Bedouin hospitality tent, but it WAS in the...

. Yesterday I traveled northward an hour and a quarter by bus. Getting off the bus, I stood on the corner for a few minutes marveling a...

. Woohoo, I got to climb up a huge ladder and play in a HUGE truck!  What a fun day that was in Ramla!  Look at the size of that t...

. The light and colors were beautiful when I went walking just outside of town tonight between 7 and 8 pm!  I had the whole desert all ...