Pictures from Mea Shearim

On a short walk through Mea Shearim yesterday I had my camera out - come take a look:

Inside a Jewish bookstore, a whole section just on Shmittah, the Sabbatical year for the Land of Israel

Kid's books talk about the wondrousness of the Land of Israel and the G-dly commandments which have to do solely with Land...


This page compares the Shabbat of the week to the Shabbat of the Land of Israel


In the bookstore: tons of English book for the tons of English-speakers that loaf around


A majestic palm adorns a building in Mea Shearim


...but you can't convince everyone and at least we have a vibrant democracy...