I know that many people go to Israel to focus on the holy sites and the historical and Biblical richness of the area.  And while those were certainly important parts of my experience,  I was also interested in capturing images of the people who live there. What a wonderful and rich variety I found.…

A little detour from posting about the Israel trip . . .…

(Edited to add on Feb. 25:   All the pictures in this post eventually made their way into one of the posts I wrote in the weeks following.  I am going to leave it up anyway since it captures my initial overview of the country.) I have just a very few minutes to get a post up so I’ll share some pictures with limited commentary.  We…

Well folks. The time has come. Tomorrow we will travel 3 hours to Raleigh to board a flight at 5 p.m. to New York City. At midnight, we will get on an  EL AL flight and twelve hours later, we will land in Tel Aviv. (Which is seven hours ahead.) Then we’ll get on a bus to Jerusalem where we will check into the Olive…