Picture a Day: Yom Kippur 100 Years Ago -- Or More: Photographic...

Picture a Day: Yom Kippur 100 Years Ago -- Or More: Photographic...: Jews at the Kotel on Yom Kippur (circa 1904) See analysis of  the graffiti on the wall for dating this picture. The graffiti on the Wa...

Picture a Day: Beneath the Old City of Jerusalem Lies a Huge Cave...

Picture a Day: Beneath the Old City of Jerusalem Lies a Huge Cave...:  Five men in " Solomon's Quarry ," circa 1910. Another picture of the group can be found  here Beneath the Old City of Jerusalem, not f...

Picture a Day: Blowing the Shofar on the New Year 80 Years Ago --...

Picture a Day: Blowing the Shofar on the New Year 80 Years Ago --...:  Yemenite Jew blowing the shofar (circa 1935)  "Blow the Shofar at the New Moon...Because It Is a Decree for Israel, a Judgment Day...

Picture a Day: Special Rosh Hashanna feature: Treasures from the...

Picture a Day: Special Rosh Hashanna feature: Treasures from the...: Tashlich prayer on the Brooklyn Bridge, 1919. The Near Year prayer is traditionally said at a body of water where the worshipper "casts...

Picture a Day: EArtHqUAkE! in the Holy Land in 1927. New picture...

Picture a Day: EArtHqUAkE! in the Holy Land in 1927. New picture...: The earthquake of July 11, 1927. Partial collapse of mosque and minaret on Mt. of Olives  85 years ago a powerful earthquake struc...

Picture a Day: Who Is Colonel Coventry? Mystery Pictures of Brit...

Picture a Day: Who Is Colonel Coventry? Mystery Pictures of Brit...: " Col. Coventry driving into Jerusalem from railroad station" 1916 Here is a series of pictures of a Colonel Coventry entering Jerusale...