Encountering Israel


5. "Hasid (ultra-orthodox Jew) on Cell Phone": outside walls of the Old City, Jerusalem.
At last we arrived in Jerusalem: the holiest city in the Holy Land. A Hasidic ultra-orthodox family was walking past the Old City's stone walls; father (the patriarch) on a cell phone, wife and sons at his side.
According to Marc Rosenstein, an Israeli historian who is currently writing about my photographs, "The dissonance between the 'heavenly' and the...
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At last we arrived in Jerusalem: the holiest city in the Holy Land. A Hasidic ultra-orthodox family was walking past the Old City's stone walls; father (the patriarch) on a cell phone, wife and sons at his side.
According to Marc Rosenstein, an Israeli historian who is currently writing about my photographs, "The dissonance between the 'heavenly' and the...
more »
Susan Ressler