More photos from Israel
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magidMore of a mixed bag this time.
Mea She'arim was one of the first neighborhoods of Jerusalem outside the Old City. It's a very frum neighborhood, including signs with exhortations for more strict observance, frequently aimed at women (especially about clothing and wearing more of it). Some stores have signs requesting women be modestly dressed to shop there. And there are lots of other, less permanent, signs as well. The black and white posters are frequently death notices, though some are political, or other announcements. I don't think they ever get taken down, just plastered over with more posters. These are on Mea She'arim Street, one of the main drags in the neighborhood.
I'd intended to take a bunch of photos of street signs, like the trilingual triangular slow sign, one language per side, with a picture of an adult walking with a child. The only one I took, however, was this one, showing that parking is allowed on the sidewalk.
And how could I resist my street!
This is one of the streets in Yemin Moshe, an artists' neighborhood across the valley from the Old City, to the south. It's all Jerusalem stone, of course (it's city law), but instead of the parallel ramps as in the Arab Quarter, this ramp is up the side of the stepped street.
Once at the top, it's easy to find the windmill, even at night. Of course, taking a picture of it at night is tricky, especially because I couldn't figure out how to turn the automagic flash off (these were my first tries with this camera). So you get a dark photo of the base of the windmill (you'll have to take my word for it).
The last afternoon in Israel we went out of the city to Mevo Modi'in, a little settlement outside Modi'in, where the bride's parents* were hosting a sheva brachot. We were early enough that there was time to walk over to the local ruins before it got dark. This is an overview sort of shot.
* And you may ask yourself "Where is this beautiful bride?" (The trip was to go to a wedding, after all.) I have a bunch of wedding photos, but they're mostly dark (it was a night wedding, with the huppah outside), or fairly generic (I knew a handful of the 450 assembled for the simcha), so I don't think they're worth posting.
This is some kind of wheel, obviously, but we couldn't figure out what. First thought is some kind of millstone, but IANAA (I am not an archaeologist). Note also the floor mosaic.
Plus a picture of my mom through the square hole. This is one of my favorite pictures from the trip.
As with the other sets of photos, there are more in the LJ gallery.
Mea She'arim was one of the first neighborhoods of Jerusalem outside the Old City. It's a very frum neighborhood, including signs with exhortations for more strict observance, frequently aimed at women (especially about clothing and wearing more of it). Some stores have signs requesting women be modestly dressed to shop there. And there are lots of other, less permanent, signs as well. The black and white posters are frequently death notices, though some are political, or other announcements. I don't think they ever get taken down, just plastered over with more posters. These are on Mea She'arim Street, one of the main drags in the neighborhood.
I'd intended to take a bunch of photos of street signs, like the trilingual triangular slow sign, one language per side, with a picture of an adult walking with a child. The only one I took, however, was this one, showing that parking is allowed on the sidewalk.
And how could I resist my street!
This is one of the streets in Yemin Moshe, an artists' neighborhood across the valley from the Old City, to the south. It's all Jerusalem stone, of course (it's city law), but instead of the parallel ramps as in the Arab Quarter, this ramp is up the side of the stepped street.
Once at the top, it's easy to find the windmill, even at night. Of course, taking a picture of it at night is tricky, especially because I couldn't figure out how to turn the automagic flash off (these were my first tries with this camera). So you get a dark photo of the base of the windmill (you'll have to take my word for it).
The last afternoon in Israel we went out of the city to Mevo Modi'in, a little settlement outside Modi'in, where the bride's parents* were hosting a sheva brachot. We were early enough that there was time to walk over to the local ruins before it got dark. This is an overview sort of shot.
* And you may ask yourself "Where is this beautiful bride?" (The trip was to go to a wedding, after all.) I have a bunch of wedding photos, but they're mostly dark (it was a night wedding, with the huppah outside), or fairly generic (I knew a handful of the 450 assembled for the simcha), so I don't think they're worth posting.
This is some kind of wheel, obviously, but we couldn't figure out what. First thought is some kind of millstone, but IANAA (I am not an archaeologist). Note also the floor mosaic.
Plus a picture of my mom through the square hole. This is one of my favorite pictures from the trip.
As with the other sets of photos, there are more in the LJ gallery.
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Date: 2007-05-16 06:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-16 01:00 pm (UTC)It's pretty cool...
Date: 2007-05-18 02:45 pm (UTC)It occurred to me the other day: I wish my cousin (youngest aunt's child) had his Bar Mitzvah in Israel, so we would've had a really good excuse to go over there. Instead, he and my aunt have been coming to my father's shul for years, and my aunt did a sabbatical year in the US living w/my parents, so he had it in FL. Feh, missed opportunity. *grin*
Re: It's pretty cool...
Date: 2007-05-18 04:39 pm (UTC)Does your aunt have any younger kids? ;-)
*grin*
Date: 2007-05-18 04:47 pm (UTC)Re: *grin*
Date: 2007-05-18 05:20 pm (UTC)