Street Scene

Friday night in Jerusalem, the streets are quiet, no traffic and the stones glow a golden Shabbat sine. Three figures cast their shadows in the street, while coming from Shul...

I think one can use as an art subject almost every street corner in Jerusalem. The older housing structures have so much to offer the eye, I just hope to...

Kever Rachel, the tomb of our matriarch Rachel, located in Beth Lechem has always been a location where to go and pray for all the troubles that befell Am Yisrael.

A water carrier was a very hard and backbreaking job, but it stirs a world of imagination in our minds. No story of Shtetl life is complete without mentioning the...

This elderly Jew standing in a street in pre-war Lodz, Poland, has been waiting around for weeks to find a job, any job to feed his family. His lips won't...

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas A porter by trade, but not many clients today. This Jew in pre-war Poland is lucky that he has a wagon, while many of his peers...

Daily Yiddish newspapers in prewar Europe were a usual sight, from community politics, world news events to sports. People would wait around at the neighborhood newsstand, waiting for the daily...

No matter how many times, I walk the local streets of Yerushalayim, I am amazed. There's so much holiness and pureness in the air, in the people. Here an older...

What a marvelous feeling it is to walk around in Nachlaot, Jerusalem, where old and new mingle within the narrow streets. Charm and flowers is what stands out everywhere, and...

A cute small street corner grocery (Makolet) in Jerusalem. Drawing based on photograph of @Jerusalem_Yachad

Two brothers holding hands while walking down Meah Shearim, Jerusalem. Drawing based on photograph of @nachmanhellman

The holy city of Tzfas is where the greatest Kabalists like the Arizal, Chareidim, Ramak and many more have studied and thaught the mystics of Hashem. The view in this...

Even a simple staircase in Jerusalem reminds you that after going down, one can go back up. Let's keep going higher and higher till we reach the heavenly Jerusalem.

Open the gates of righteousness! I shall enter through them, and praise Hashem. The gates and alleyways of the old city are so beautiful and charming.

Yemin Moshe is a beautiful Jerusalem neighborhood, built by Sir Moses Montefiore for the poor residents of the old city. He also built for them a windmill to provide the people...

That kid sees candy, mountains of candy, rivers of sweetness flowing in the Shuk. Which flavor will be the most exciting for Shabbat? I would eat them all...

I love walking those old streets towards the holy wall and feel the beauty. The renovated streets are right on top of the upper city of Jerusalem mentioned in Yosofin,...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Children running around the narrow alleyways of the Old City, are part of a foretold prophesy that we see happening in front of our eyes. Laughter...