Machane Yehuda | Jewish market, Jerusalem

Images mostly from Machane Yehuda, the bustling Jewish market in Jerusalem, just prior to Shabbat last week. A few photographs are from the nearby Ben Yehuda Street market.

This work is part of the Jerusalem:Walls and Bridges and the Jerusalem Stories projects I have been working on, on my own and with writer/storyteller Carol Grosman.

La'ad program, Bar Ilan University, Israel

This program trains people to provide care for elderly Holocaust survivors. This class was held at Bar Ilan University, in Ramat Gan, Israel.

Ethiopian Absorption Center | Safed, Israel

These are recent Falash Mura immigrants to Israel, who are learning and adjusting to Israeli society. This absorbtion center (ulpan) is in the northern mountains of the country, near the historic town of Safed.

There are about one thousand residents at the center.

Thanks to the residents of the center for their openness, kindness and hospitality, and to Moran Yanai of the center, for her guidance and preparation.

MASA program, South Tel Aviv

The MASA /Aardvark program, in South Tel Aviv, Israel. This is a program for gap year students to live, volunteer, and learn in Israel.

These are all American Jewish teenagers.

Eritreans & Ukrainians in Israel (on the road)

These photographs were made at a Ukrainian Community program for seniors in Bat Yam, Israel, and at the Nitzana Center, in Israel's Negev desert.

The African teenagers at Nitzana are from Eritrea. They escaped the country and walked, often alone, across mountains and deserts to Israel, suffering along the route from the most horrific conditions imaginable. They are all Tigrit-speaking orphans, who are being cared for by the Israeli government in a humanitarian gesture.

There are numerous programs, many related to environmental technology, at Nitzana.

And, the road is the road...

On assignment for JFNA. Thanks to Sara Eisen of the Jewish Agency for Israel for her guidance in Nitzana.

Tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai | Meron, Israel

I davened briefly at the tomb of the great sage, Rabbi Shimon Ben Yochai, who is buried in Meron, Israel.

A very moving place and experience.

Thanks to my guide, Doron Cohen, for the opportunity and encouragement.