Old jewish photos

A Jewish family poses for a family photograph outside its home on the eve of Shavuot. The woman on the left is Ryfka, the sister of Joseph Mordechai Halter.

Jerusalem, Jewish Quarter (Remember what the Bible says about the honor of the grey head? This picture reminds me of that :)

Two Jewish men and two Jewish women, dressed in the Arab-style dress typical for Jews in Palestine of the time, are standing in front of the Western Wall, Jerusalem, circa 1908. Photo by Underwood & Underwood, Courtesy of the U.S. Library of Congress.

Between 1935 and 1938 photographer Roman Vishniac explored the cities and villages of Eastern Europe, capturing life in the Jewish shtetlekh...

Chassidic yoga

Chie Nishio, a photographer born in Japan, chronicled the lives of Lubavitch-Chabad Hasidim in Brooklyn, including the movement’s leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

A young Jewish boy is taught how to pray by an elderly Jewish man at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Photo taken on August 13, 2005.

Who Ever Heard of a Jewish "Mukhtar*," and in Tiberias, no less. The story of the Varhaftig-Amitai family over the generations.

Family

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As you can see, Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children from a single family often wear the same clothes. I guess, it's easier for the mothers to buy, and individualism is not the property they wish to develop most... Also, note two of them carry food bag. On the walls, you see pashkvils. "A pashkvil is a broadside or poster that has been situated on a public wall or location in an Orthodox Jewish community, and most commonly within Hareidi enclaves. Pashkvilim are sometimes distributed anonymously…