The Western Wall
An Orthodox Jew announces the beginning of a new year with the blowing of a shofar. Psalm 81 commands: “Blow the shofar at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day, for it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.”
All the photographs featured in the calendar were taken by an Israeli photographer named Jack Hazut of www.israelimage.net.
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The wall has been a site for Jewish prayer and pilgrimage for centuries. The earliest source mentioning Jewish attachment to the site dates back to the 4th Century.
It became […]
At only 120 years old, this is the newest of the entrances into the Old City. The gate was cut into the northwestern side of the city in 1887 in […]
The only gate on the city's western side, Jaffa Gate is the most popular one today for Jewish residents and tourists. The Arabs call this the "Gate of the Friend," […]
The Dung Gate today provides the easiest access to the prayer plaza at the Western Wall. Different theories have been proposed as to how the gate originally acquired its name, […]
