Nir > Stock Photo in Black and White of Motion Blurred Young Girl Descending A Poverty Stricken Residential Building Staircase in Mea Shaarim Ultra Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem Israel. Shot April 2007.
Nir > Stock photo of the village of Ein Karem in Jerusalem Israel. Shot from the Mountain of Ora with the Russian Orthodox Church dominant in the foreground. Ein Karem is the traditional birthplace of John the Baptist, son of Elizabeth and Zakaria, a priest in the Holy Temple. The Mountain of Ora was the escape path used by Elizabeth with John the child to evade King Herod's soldiers.
Nir > Stock photo of the village of Ein Karem in Jerusalem Israel. Shot from the Mountain of Ora with the Russian Orthodox Church dominant in the foreground. Ein Karem is the traditional birthplace of John the Baptist, son of Elizabeth and Zakaria, a priest in the Holy Temple. The Mountain of Ora was the escape path used by Elizabeth with John the child to evade King Herod's soldiers.
Nir > 1-October-2006: On the eve of the Holy Jewish Day of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, religious Jews bless themselves while spinning live poultry in the air above their heads and then mercilessly slaughtering them in sacrifice. Yom Kippur is commemorated with a 25-hour fast and intensive prayer. It is the most holy day of the Jewish year. Eating, drinking, washing, cosmetics, wearing leather shoes, and conjugal 

relations are prohibited. Fasting, total abstention from all food and drink, usually begins one half hour before sundown and ends after nightfall the following day. There is no commerce of any kind in the Jewish areas.
Nir > Stock photo of young children with a warning sign in background warning pedestrians not to enter the ultra orthodox Jewish Neighborhood of Mea Shaarim in immodest clothes. In extreme cases people, especially women, have been attacked in this neighborhood because of dress code. Shot April 2007.
Nir > Stock Photo of A Religious Jewish Man in traditional black clothes Passing a Tzamtzam Photo Shop Displaying Portraits of Rabbis in Mea Shaarim Ultra Orthodox Neighborhood in Jerusalem Israel. Shot April 2007.
Nir > Stock Photo of Young Ultra Orthodox Jewish Man Under a Sign Advertising Shtreimel in Mea Shaarim Jewish Neighborhood in Jerusalem. A shtreimel is a fur hat worn by Hassidic Jews on festive days. Shot April 2007.
Nir > Stock Photo of Traditional Preparations for Passover in Ultra Orthodox Jewish Neighborhood of Mea Shaarim in Jerusalem. Photo displays traditional burning of leavened leftovers on the eve of Passover. Shot April 2007.
Nir > Stock photo of woman beggar in the ultra orthodox Mea Shaarim Street in Jerusalem Israel. Shot April 2007.
Stock Photo in Black and White of Motion Blurred Young Girl Descending A Poverty Stricken Residential Building Staircase in Mea Shaarim Ultra Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem Israel. Shot April 2007.
Nir > Stock Photo in Black and White of Motion Blurred Young Girl Descending A Poverty Stricken Residential Building Staircase in Mea Shaarim Ultra Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem Israel. Shot April 2007.
Stock Photo in Black and White of Motion Blurred Young Girl Descending A Poverty Stricken Residential Building Staircase in Mea Shaarim Ultra Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem Israel. Shot April 2007.
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