Independence Day, 1949

Yom Haatzmaut is so rife with nostalgia for most Israelis, mostly because many of us can still remember the time before we had any....

The Kiss

I don't know if other cultures have this custom of kissing the land upon arrival. I know the pope does it wherever he goes,...

Parental Skills

When our kid was little, I used to remark on all the skills I was acquiring, which probably had no application whatsoever outside the...

How Can You Tell?

The caption that accompanies this picture, made available by The Jewish Press' image provider Flash90, goes: Birtzeit University students loyal to Fatah celebrate their victory...

Omer Simplified

Did you count the Omer last night? This is what it looks like. It's harvest time in a field near the central Israeli town of Modi'in. For...

Guard Cats and Crows

The streets of many Israeli cities are monitored by large clowders of cats, who receive their daily appointed meals from little old ladies. Those...

What My Dad Did in the War

In 1987 someone rummaging in a second hand bookstore in Vienna came across a set of about 400 color slides. Upon examination, they turned...

What the US Military Remembers

This is a menorah of remembrance which will be lit inside the Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base chapel in Alaska during Holocaust Remembrance Day. According to...

Graves in the Snow

The Israeli delegation walking at the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, Poland, as part of the March of the Living, April 04, 2013. The March of...

The Promise of ’42’

President Barack Obama talks with Rachel Robinson, a former nurse and the widow of baseball player Jackie Robinson. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was to baseball what...

Ready for Summer

This is the Herzliya, Israel, beach, in early March. Everything is ready for summer. Let's go!

Priests Galore

On March 28, 2013, Chol Hamoed Pesach (the intermediary days of Passover), thousands assembled in front of the Western Wall to receive a mega-blessing...

Redemption of a Firstborn Donkey

A man holds a donkey foal (baby donkey) after the ceremony of "The Redemption of the First Born Donkey," or "Pidyon Peter Chamor" in...

Perfect Silhouette

It takes a photographer's eye to catch this kind of image. This Haredi man was walking on the walls of Jerusalem's Old City near Damascus...

A Very Obama Passover

Ever since his first campaign for President, President Obama has been running a Passover Seder, in which he celebrates the holiday of the Israel's...

Passover, 1910

This picture was taken either during the Popkin family Seder in Duluth, in 1910, or right before the holiday. It's difficult to imagine someone...

Floating Might

This is the Navy's newest aircraft carrier, USS George H.W. Bush, performing maritime support operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 6th...

Arctic Obama

Green Peace activists climbed the Chords Bridge at the entrance to Jerusalem, March 21, 2013, to hang a banner saying “Obama Stop Arctic drilling,"...

Copycat

Walking on the tarmac Wednesday afternoon, President Barack Obama took of his jacket and wore it, businessman style, over his shoulder. So, moments later,...

Dry Run

These Israeli children are practicing their enthusiastic and totally spontaneous waving of Israeli and American in a rehearsal outside the President's Residence in Jerusalem,...

The Race for Jerusalem

Here are Formula One Scuderia Ferrari team driver Giancarlo Fisichella (L) and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, toasting the launch of "Jerusalem Formula The Peace...

Israel’s Future Beauty Queen

This little girl is gorgeous beyond words. Can't you just hear the pageant bells?

The Shtreimel Maker

Here's a Haredi artisan peeking through the hole in a shtreimel he is cobbling in the small Grenzberg Shtreimel factory in the Mea Shearim...

Iraqi Passover

U.S. Army Spc. Brian Lankin fills Capt. Richard Tachett's glass with wine during a Passover Seder at the Freedom Rest at Contingency Operating Base...

All in a Day’s Work

We caught this picture on the Life in Israel blog. According to them, two days before Rabbi Menachem Fromman's death, MK Ruth Calderon (Yesh...

Going Presidential

Here's a Jerusalem municipality worker hanging an American flag near the Israeli President's residence, in preparation for the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama,...

Chutzpah Time

The Israelites were ordered to get a lamb, each one of them, as God put it, speaking to Moses: Tell the whole community of...

No Govt Is Good Govt?

Here's the leader of the Jewish Home party Naftali Bennett, arriving at a meeting with Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party and...

Segways around Jerusalem

Love a good Segway picture. These tourists rode their Segways by the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, March 07, 2013. Here's what Segwayz The...

Woman Behind Wheel

This image is titled "Women and Children on an Outing." It depicts "A group of women and children, notable for the fact that there...

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