20140929 In Pictures: Mea Shearim Neighborhood in Jerusalem
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An elderly woman sweeps the entrance to her home in the Batei Varsha Alley in the Mea Shearim neighborhood, one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem, populated by the haredi ultra-Orthodox community.
In Pictures: Mea Shearim Neighborhood in Jerusalem
An elderly woman ascends the stairs to her home in the Batei Varsha Alley in the Mea Shearim neighborhood, one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem, populated by the haredi ultra-Orthodox community.
In Pictures: Mea Shearim Neighborhood in Jerusalem
Two young men begin to prepare a Sukkah on Yoel Street in the Mea Shearim neighborhood, one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem, populated by the haredi ultra-Orthodox community. Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, is a biblical Jewish holiday is one of the three pilgrimage festivals on which the Israelites would make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem.