Music and Rain
Sometimes we just need to take a moment to stop & listen to the music, the rain, and the vibrant city sounds around us. Source: @sephardicsoul
Shavua Tov from Jerusalem
#shavuatov #goodweek from Jerusalem Source: @daniyyel_n
Historic!
Watch this unprecedented event, Thursday January 23, 2020. Over 45 world leaders and Heads of State gather at Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem for the 5th World Holocaust Forum, under the banner: “Remembering the Holocaust, Fighting Antisemitism.” The forum includes addresses from a number of world leaders, short video […]
Meaningful View
Pictured here is an exit at Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem. The top image is a look back at the memorial. The bottom image is when you turn around and exit to a view of the city of Jerusalem 🇮🇱#AmYisraelChai American Society for Yad Vashem
6 Years.
6 years ago tonight, my father passed away suddenly. One is never prepared for these things. However when the time came for my parents to organize their wills, they discussed their options for burial in New York or Israel. They considered that we live in New York and it would […]
Everyone has a story, here is one of mine.
I am in Israel right now for my father’s yartzeit, he is buried here and tomorrow night will mark 6 years since his passing. Humans of Judaism is a project that I started in memory of my father during my year of mourning. My family has great history in Jerusalem. […]
Soon.
SOON: #Chanukah Source: Moshe Schlass
Western Wall: 1967 – Now
Then and WOW! 🇮🇱 #ShavuahTov #GoodWeek from Jerusalem Source: Sharon Gabay – Photographer
Holocaust Survivor Celebrates 104th Birthday at Western Wall
Shoshana Ovitz survived Auschwitz. After the war, she met her husband Dov, who lost his wife & children in the concentration camps. Together, they moved to Haifa, Israel where she worked as a tailor and helped her husband in his business. Shoshana just celebrated her 104th birthday. As a gift, […]
Holocaust survivor Saul Dreier blowing the shofar at the Kotel
Holocaust survivor Saul Dreier blowing the shofar at the Kotel! Born in Krakow, Poland, Saul was the only member of his immediate family to survive the Shoah. He survived the Kraków ghetto and several concentration camps, including Plaszów, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Linz. After the war, Saul was sent to a […]
June 5, 1967
On June 5, 1967, a war began between Israel and three neighboring countries, Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War, 52 years ago, became a defining moment for the young country. David Rubinger documented those crucial days. His images have become a symbol of Israel. Source: Government […]
View from the Western Wall
View from the Western Wall Source: Avivit Pasternak Mikhli
Birchat Cohanim
What a View! Birchat Kohanim, the Priestly blessings at the Western Wall. Happy #Passover ✡️ חג פסח שמח
Happy Passover from the old city walls of Jerusalem
✡️ Happy #Passover from the old city walls of Jerusalem
The Ades Synagogue
The Ades Synagogue, also known as the Great Synagogue Ades of the Glorious Aleppo Community, located in Jerusalem’s Nachlaot neighborhood, was established by Syrian immigrants in 1901. At the turn of the 20th century, many of Syria’s Jewish community had emigrated to escape the economic downturn, which arrived with the […]
PASSOVER CLEANING: The Western Wall
Western Wall employees remove millions of handwritten notes from between the ancient stones. The notes are placed in a repository in accordance with Jewish law, with the laborers – working under the supervision of Western Wall and Holy Sites Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz – taking care to not read their content. […]
Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem
Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem Source: Noam Chen – Photographer | נועם חן – צלם
Spiderman at the Kotel
🎭 #OldbutGold 🕸 Spiderman at the Western Wall. This week we celebrate the Jewish holiday of #Purim, where people wear costmes as part of the festivities. 🔜 #Purim begins Wednesday at Sundown — in Jerusalem, Israel
Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem
Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem Source: @s.gelber.photography @stateofisrael — in Jerusalem, Israel
Shabbat Shalom
Shabbat Shalom Source: @stateofisrael @luca.m.schneider — in Jerusalem, Israel
Good Morning from Jerusalem
💐🇮🇱 Good Morning from Jerusalem Source: Sharon Gabay – Photographer — in Jerusalem, Israel
Yaakov Weksler: At 35 He Discovered He is Jewish, Today He Celebrates His Bar Mitzvah
Last week, Yaakov Weksler (b. 1943) had his Bar Mitzvah in the Yad Vashem Synagogue. A former Polish Catholic priest, Yaakov (formerly Romuald Waszkinel) discovered at age 35 that he was in fact the son of Jews killed in the Holocaust. In the hopes of saving their infant son’s life, […]
Facebook Aging Challenge
🇮🇱 Western Wall Entrance 1967: Then and Now #AgingChallenge Source: Sharon Gabay – Photographer — in Jerusalem, Israel 🇮🇱 Founding of Tel Aviv 1909: Then and Now #AgingChallenge — in Tel Aviv, Israel
”I arrived at the hospital lying down, and I am leaving on foot.” – Shira Ish Ran
”I arrived at the hospital lying down, and I am leaving on foot.” – Shira Ish Ran, the Israeli woman who was shot by terrorists and critically injured while seven months pregnant. Her unborn child did not survive the attack, however today, one month later, Shira was discharged from Shaare […]
Who knew?
Did you know? Have you ever tried sending a letter to God, Jerusalem?
Shabbat Shalom
Headed into Shabbat like .. 😜 Source: Jason Cohen — in Jerusalem, Israel
Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem, Israel
💙 Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem Israel Source: Sharon Gabay – Photographer — in Jerusalem, Israel
Am Yisrael Chai
🇮🇱💪🏼 #AmYisraelChai 💙 Have a Good Week #ShavuahTov Source: Noam Chen – Photographer | נועם חן – צלם— in Jerusalem, Israel
Mamilla: Then and Now
Then and Wow 🇮🇱 Jerusalem’s Mamilla mall in 1949 and now. Source: Sharon Gabay – Photographer — in Jerusalem, Israel
Brothers.
♥️ Source: Sharon Gabay – Photographer — in Jerusalem, Israel.
Humans of the Western Wall
IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: Revised December 1, 2018 Andy Cohen June 2018/ Photo: Andy Cohen Prince William June 2018/ Photo: The Royal Family Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld & Family January 2018/ Photo: Jessica Seinfeld Conan O’Brien August 2017/ Photo: Conan O’Brien Justin Timberlake May 2014/ Photo: Justin Timberlake Mariah Carey […]
Humans of Judaism Goes to Israel, November 2018
November 2018 marked 5 years since my father passed away. Humans of Judaism was created in his memory, in an effort to share the good within the community. My dad is buried in Israel and this trip was planned to honor his memory. Below are some snapshots and moments from […]