Gates to a smaller world

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Step through the open gates into the magic world of puppetry.
Just inside the stony entrance is the small amphitheater of the Train Theater in Jerusalem's Liberty Bell Park.

(The building behind it is the Inbal Hotel. You can watch Jerusalem on their live webcam!)
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August 14-19 they will be having the 20th International Festival of Puppet Theater.
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These gates are for Monday Doorways and the special world is for That's MyWorld Tuesday.
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For the 4th of July

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Jerry the Dragon's spiky back and tail cast nice long shadows for Shadow Shot Sunday.
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The dragon lives in Liberty Bell Park.

(I'm hoping he will qualify as an animal for Camera-Critters meme, too.)

I was there two weeks ago for the big Hebrew Book Week fair.
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This innovative activity park intersperses stone paths, greenery, and an open-air community center offering cultural and recreational events.

Jerusalem created Liberty Bell Garden in 1976 in honor of America's Bicentennial.
The replica of Philadelphia's Liberty Bell was a gift to Israel from the City of Philadelphia and is mounted in the center of the park.
But without the crack.
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The inscription chosen for the original bell is from the Bible, Leviticus 25:10--

"PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT THE LAND, TO ALL THE INHABITANTS THEREOF."
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Happy Independence Day to the United States and to Americans everywhere!

An icon of liberty and justice

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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, DEAR AMERICA !

In honor of America's Bicentennial, Jerusalem created the Liberty Bell Garden in 1976.
A replica of Philadelphia's Liberty Bell is mounted in the center of the park.
But without the crack.

"Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof . . ." is part of the inscription on the bell and is taken from Leviticus 25:10.

Happy 4th of July to Americans and Shabbat shalom, Sabbath peace, to everyone.
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