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Photo from my kitchen in Pittsburgh.
Jun 11, 2007 | Instructor Zach, classmate Jim, and I (Ronit) pose in our t-shirts on the last day of Hot II Spring 2007.
May 2, 2007 | Art for desktop background.
Dec 23, 2006 | After some gimping (linux photo-editing). Can't decide if this looks better or worse.
Dec 23, 2006 |
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Space-time anomally. A decent picture!
Dec 23, 2006 | Me. Temp red hair.
Dec 23, 2006 | I grew these guys from seeds, and they are like children to me. Great to eat in dishes.
Dec 23, 2006 | My pet peeves garden. Peeves are inserted into them at will. For STRESS relief.
Dec 23, 2006 |
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Fallingwater.
Sep 4, 2006 | Labor Day roadtrip-mates to Fallingwater.
Sep 4, 2006 | The Israeli who sat next to me on the plane. He was headed for his trip-of-a-lifetime ... in America!
Aug 15, 2006 | Ceiling fountain at Ben Gurion Airport.
Aug 14, 2006 |
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People were a little loopy at this point. Especially the Brit on the right, who was singing Yellow Submarine when we showed up. "You know how you dare someone to do things when you're bored..."
Aug 13, 2006 | Happy.
Aug 13, 2006 | People whom we asked to take a picture. Of us. US.
Aug 13, 2006 | Impromptu Yavneh Olami gathering after dinner near Froyo's.
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Sign from that same store. This always cracks me up.
Aug 13, 2006 | Playing around at the clothing store next to the Underground, we discover mysterious apparel.
Aug 13, 2006 | Mmm...
Aug 13, 2006 | Bon Appetit.
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While we were eating, a group started singing nearby because they supported Israel.
Aug 13, 2006 | Dinner at an Italian restaurant, the last night of the program.
Aug 13, 2006 | Dinner at an Italian restaurant, the last night of the program.
Aug 13, 2006 | There's something strange in this picture...
Aug 13, 2006 |
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Anna.
Aug 13, 2006 | Chilling with Anna at the tourist stores near the Kotel.
Aug 13, 2006 | Kosher Burger King on Ben Yehudah.
Aug 13, 2006 | Rafi and I.
Aug 13, 2006 |
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Counselor Rafi.
Aug 13, 2006 | Friends.
Aug 13, 2006 | Yavneh barbecue.
Aug 13, 2006 | Something strange in this picture...
Aug 13, 2006 |
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At the art fair, the band that launched into "Blue Suede Shoes" in Hebrew.
Aug 12, 2006 | One of the food booths at the art fair.
Aug 12, 2006 | Glass blowing booth at the art fair.
Aug 12, 2006 | Jerusalem art fair.
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Belly dancer from the Jerusalem art fair.
Aug 12, 2006 | Belly dancer from the Jerusalem art fair.
Aug 12, 2006 | Ready for Shabbat, with a new shirt from the art fair (Bolivia, I think).
Aug 11, 2006 | The Alley.
Aug 11, 2006 |
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My bowling team. Counselor Jessica is third from left.
Aug 11, 2006 | Yavneh Olami bowling trip. A modernn bowling alley on the second floor of a random building in the industrial zone of the middle of nowhere.
Aug 11, 2006 | Henna tattoo from the Jerusalem art fair.
Aug 11, 2006 | Mea Shearim residents watching their street being torn up.
Aug 10, 2006 |
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Mea Shearim.
Aug 10, 2006 | New glasses. Waiting for the bus.
Aug 10, 2006 | Boys' choir who sang for the children.
Aug 9, 2006 | At a carnival for children from the north.
Aug 9, 2006 |
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The halvah stand in the shuk. Ahhhh....
Aug 9, 2006 | Entrance to Mea Shearim.
Aug 9, 2006 | See sign.
Aug 9, 2006 | See sign.
Aug 9, 2006 |
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Discovery while wandering.
Aug 9, 2006 | Wandering along Jerusalem streets while waiting for new eyeglasses (short, embarrassing story).
Aug 9, 2006 | Strange art installation inside the Ticho House, home of the Dr. Ticho, who ran the first eye clinic in Israel.
Aug 9, 2006 | More camera features.
Aug 8, 2006 |
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Camera features.
Aug 8, 2006 | Packages for the soldiers up north being made in Yonina's apartment.
Aug 8, 2006 | Rafi's going-away party (he got drafted).
Aug 7, 2006 | Bad Chinese food at the mall. Yum!
Aug 6, 2006 |
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Every city has to have one.
Aug 6, 2006 | Cats.
Aug 6, 2006 | Cats.
Aug 6, 2006 | Cats.
Aug 6, 2006 |
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Israeli Shuk.
Aug 4, 2006 | Shnitzy's.
Aug 4, 2006 | Froyo counter.
Aug 1, 2006 | Sprinkles yummmmmmmm.
Aug 1, 2006 |
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Froyo friend.
Aug 1, 2006 | Froyo with friends.
Aug 1, 2006 | Froyo lives!
Aug 1, 2006 | Sunglasses.
Aug 1, 2006 |
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Nature reserve.
Aug 1, 2006 | Nature reserve.
Aug 1, 2006 | A randomly-placed walled nature reserve near the Russian compound.
Aug 1, 2006 | My slurpy from Mea Shearim.
Jul 31, 2006 |
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No comment. Inside the Jaffa Gate.
Jul 30, 2006 | The Museum's population distribution exhibit. It's creative.
Jul 30, 2006 | Another.
Jul 30, 2006 | Example of the Museum's cute dioramas.
Jul 30, 2006 |
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Decor from the other side. It was really quite trippy.
Jul 30, 2006 | Model of Citadel.
Jul 30, 2006 | In sepia, as befits the surroundings.
Jul 30, 2006 | Theater with an educational movie from the early 80s.
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A close up of the decor.
Jul 30, 2006 | Migdal David Museum. The decor is ... interesting.
Jul 30, 2006 | The jewelery store in Ben Yehuda.
Jul 30, 2006 | A good effort.
Jul 30, 2006 |
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And Binah definitely wasn't shy.
Jul 29, 2006 | Rechalah wasn't shy either.
Jul 29, 2006 | Cousins posing.
Jul 29, 2006 | Nechama Gitel loved the camera.
Jul 29, 2006 |
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The cousins.
Jul 29, 2006 | Fun!
Jul 29, 2006 | Restaurant on Emek Refa'im
Jul 28, 2006 | The Waffles Eaten.
Jul 27, 2006 |
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The Waffle Bar, one of the best nights of my life.
Jul 27, 2006 | The Waffle.
Jul 27, 2006 | Hebrew U. has a Mentos Machine.
Jul 27, 2006 | View of the city.
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On the roof outside the synagogue.
Jul 27, 2006 | Our tour guide, Amber from South Africa.
Jul 27, 2006 | View from the window of the synagogue.
Jul 27, 2006 | Synagogue at Hebrew U.
Jul 27, 2006 |
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Synagogue at Hebrew U.
Jul 27, 2006 | Tour of Hebrew U. on Mt. Scopus.
Jul 27, 2006 | Underground Prisoner's Museum. The escape story.
Jul 26, 2006 | Underground Prisoner's Museum.
Jul 26, 2006 |
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Underground Prisoner's Museum.
Jul 26, 2006 | Excavations.
Jul 25, 2006 | View from stairs.
Jul 25, 2006 | Stairs leading up to the Huldah gates. They were built in a long-short pattern so you couldn't be undignified and run.
Jul 25, 2006 |
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Ruins.
Jul 25, 2006 | Huldah gates leading into the temple. I don't know how people can deny a religion when the history is right in front of your eyes.
Jul 25, 2006 | Israel is sunny.
Jul 25, 2006 | Southern Wall Excavation, looking down to excavations of a house.
Jul 25, 2006 |
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Spot the critter.
Jul 25, 2006 | Mikveh from the time of the 2nd temple. One side for impure, one side for pure.
Jul 25, 2006 | Just keep smiling, nonetheless.
Jul 25, 2006 | How to Look Like Your Mother Without Really Trying.
Jul 25, 2006 |
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Ruins of Robinson's Arch in the Southern Wall Excavations.
Jul 25, 2006 | Southern Wall Excavations, the giant playground that manages to call itself a museum.
Jul 25, 2006 | Menorah in the Cardo.
Jul 25, 2006 | Store in the Arab shuk.
Jul 25, 2006 |
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Still stalking.
Jul 24, 2006 | Stalking a guy dressed in a white shirt, suit pants, a big kippah, and BRIGHT PINK crocs.
Jul 24, 2006 | Our table. Lianna, Ronit, Lisa, and the rest.
Jul 24, 2006 | A wonderful spread for dinner with our employers. Devorah at right.
Jul 24, 2006 |
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The teeny tiny mall in Ein Bokek, the Dead Sea resort town.
Jul 24, 2006 | Relaxing by the side of the pool, before another dip in the Dead Sea.
Jul 24, 2006 | Into the hotel pool afterwards. View of Dead Sea from the pool.
Jul 24, 2006 | Into the excellent hotel pool afterwards. Beautiful view of mountains from the pool.
Jul 24, 2006 |
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Me too!
Jul 24, 2006 | Me too!
Jul 24, 2006 | Random old guys showing off.
Jul 24, 2006 | Random old guys chilling in the Dead Sea.
Jul 24, 2006 |
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Masada.
Jul 24, 2006 | Dead Sea from the bus.
Jul 24, 2006 | Dead Sea from the bus.
Jul 24, 2006 | View on my private roadtrip to the Dead Sea.
Jul 24, 2006 |
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Trying on what I thought was a pair of pants, in my favorite Near Eastern / Indian store. Still no idea what those were.
Jul 23, 2006 | Hadassah. I love the signs.
Jul 23, 2006 | Hiking.
Jul 21, 2006 | Hiking.
Jul 21, 2006 |
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View from high above.
Jul 21, 2006 | Hiking.
Jul 21, 2006 | Ronit attempting, falling over.
Jul 21, 2006 | Ronit attempting, not falling over.
Jul 21, 2006 |
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Avi demonstrating how I should take a picture of myself making a cool shadow.
Jul 21, 2006 | View from above.
Jul 21, 2006 | View from above.
Jul 21, 2006 | Stunning, the colors. Really.
Jul 21, 2006 |
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Lizzy and Liz.
Jul 21, 2006 | With Avi.
Jul 21, 2006 | Really, really amazingly beautiful.
Jul 21, 2006 | The colors, beautiful.
Jul 21, 2006 |
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Hiking.
Jul 21, 2006 | Who me? Sunburnt?
Jul 21, 2006 | Hiking.
Jul 21, 2006 | Hiking.
Jul 21, 2006 |
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Readying for the hike. At this point the girls went to the bathroom in the bushes, before noticing the toilets on the other side of the bus.
Jul 21, 2006 | Mitzpeh Ramon, or thereabouts, where we had a group hike.
Jul 21, 2006 | Advertisement on an electric pole.
Jul 20, 2006 | Close up.
Jul 20, 2006 |
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What's wrong with this picture?
Jul 20, 2006 | Bebe Netanyahu spoke, looking the other way. His security guy kepy an eye on us, also looking the other way.
Jul 20, 2006 | Bebe Netanyahu spoke. His security guy kept an eye on us.
Jul 20, 2006 | The youngest Olah.
Jul 20, 2006 |
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People gather to great the Olim.
Jul 20, 2006 | The plane is here!
Jul 20, 2006 | Many people gathered to welcome the Olim.
Jul 20, 2006 | Waiting for the plane of the Nefesh B'Nefesh flight.
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Sign for Pirates of the Carribean.
Jul 18, 2006 | The biblical zoo even has animals.
Jul 18, 2006 | View from a walkway above one of the zoo enclosures.
Jul 18, 2006 | Service road at the biblical zoo.
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Signs at the zoo are in Hebrew, Arabic, and English, and include quotes from the bible.
Jul 18, 2006 | Chilling in the biblical zoo with new Israeli pants.
Jul 18, 2006 | Chilling in the biblical zoo with new Israeli pants.
Jul 18, 2006 | Greenery. Israel is beautiful.
Jul 18, 2006 |
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Chilling in the biblical zoo with new Israeli pants.
Jul 18, 2006 | View from the biblical zoo.
Jul 18, 2006 | View from the biblical zoo.
Jul 18, 2006 | At the biblical zoo.
Jul 18, 2006 |
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At the biblical zoo.
Jul 18, 2006 | Playground slide.
Jul 18, 2006 | Reminds me of that one line from Young Frankenstein...
Jul 17, 2006 | Get your doorknobs while they're hot!
Jul 17, 2006 |
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Store in Israel.
Jul 17, 2006 | Inside the Shrine of the Book.
Jul 12, 2006 | Shrine of the Book.
Jul 12, 2006 | Clock outside the Israel Museum.
Jul 12, 2006 |
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Israeli irrigation system.
Jul 11, 2006 | Montefiore's Windmill.
Jul 11, 2006 | Montefiore's Windmill.
Jul 11, 2006 | View of Old City walls from the park near the windmill.
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Burial ground of all the relatives the Herod killed.
Jul 11, 2006 | Reappearing person act.
Jul 11, 2006 | Why is Aladdin's Palace in Jerusalem?
Jul 10, 2006 | Rocks. Walking tour along the top of the Old City walls.
Jul 10, 2006 |
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Enjoying the Old City walls tour.
Jul 10, 2006 | View from the walls.
Jul 10, 2006 | View from the walls.
Jul 10, 2006 | View from the walls.
Jul 10, 2006 |
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View from the walls - more walls!
Jul 10, 2006 | Confused by a toy-store display window in the Jerusalem mall.
Jul 9, 2006 | Amused by a toy-store display window in the Jerusalem mall.
Jul 9, 2006 | Over the Hedge.
Jul 5, 2006 |
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Shuk Machane Yehudah.
Jul 4, 2006 | Shuk Machane Yehudah.
Jul 4, 2006 | My dorm room.
Jul 3, 2006 | Arab shuk.
Jul 3, 2006 |
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In front of the kotel. Regulation picture.
Jul 3, 2006 | The first Shabbaton, at keshet. The clothing odyssey begins (new shirt).
Jun 30, 2006 | Hike.
Jun 30, 2006 | Nimrod's Castle in the Golan Heights, wherein Nimrod never was. Somehow the removed small arc makes the opening sturdier.
Jun 30, 2006 |
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In Nimrod's Castle.
Jun 30, 2006 | Good picture composition.
Jun 30, 2006 | Nimrod's Castle. Israel is beautiful.
Jun 30, 2006 | In Nimrod's Castle.
Jun 30, 2006 |
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In Nimrod's Castle.
Jun 30, 2006 | View of bathrooms and buses from Nimrod's Castle.
Jun 30, 2006 | Another view of these Israeli necessities.
Jun 30, 2006 | Getting sunburned somewhere in Israel.
Jun 29, 2006 |
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The cooler the camera, the stranger the features.
Jun 29, 2006 | Yonina studying at Bar Ilan.
Jun 28, 2006 | Yonina studying at Bar Ilan.
Jun 28, 2006 | Economics is fun.
Jun 28, 2006 |
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Shadows at Bar Ilan.
Jun 28, 2006 | Bar Ilan University.
Jun 28, 2006 | Bar Ilan University.
Jun 28, 2006 | Art photograph of my art.
Jun 22, 2006 |
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Posing with the bunny at a botanical garden in Chicago. Cute ears.
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