Playing Cars
Instead of springing for fancy bikes and such, Yerushalmi families often opt for the far cheaper toy trucks. The kids have as much fun on them, if not more, than their more affluent American counterparts.
Instead of springing for fancy bikes and such, Yerushalmi families often opt for the far cheaper toy trucks. The kids have as much fun on them, if not more, than their more affluent American counterparts.
Around this time of year, the young boys spend their afternoons after Cheder industriously collecting any and any spare scrap of flammable material. Watching them going about their business, I often think it no accident that the founding fathers of Yerushalayim insisted on building with stone only. It wasn’t for fear of fires; rather, they [...]
At the Machane Yehudah shuk. One of the fifty or so nut (pitzuchim) stands.
Fastest beggar in the shuk. Taken outside the open shuk at the entrance on Yaffo. I’m told he’s a shtickel regular.
I couldn’t resist taking a few shots of this scene straight out of Tolstoy. Right off of Dovid Yellen on Yeshayahu. Oh, and by the way, check out tovarisch Ivan on the right…who does he remind you of?