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15 year old Max's first trip to Israel. We rented a car and spent 2 weeks touring.

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Jonathan Siegel (JSBird) > Our last day. Back to the Western Wall again. A man raises his arms in supplication and prayer

Jonathan Siegel (JSBird) > Multiple Bar Mitzvah ceremonies were taking place. Here the Torah is shown aloft after the reading. The men and women are separated by a fence

Jonathan Siegel (JSBird) > A 13 year old boy reads from the Torah, part of the tradition of becoming a Bar Mitzvah

Jonathan Siegel (JSBird) > Youngsters putting on T'fillin. These are boxes with prayers in them, wrapped with leather cords around the arm and the skull. This practice comes from Deuteronomy: in the same passage that commands us to revere the words of God by putting them "on the doorposts of our house" (also known as a Mezuza), the verse continues by commanding us to put them (God's words) before our eyes and upon our arms.

Jonathan Siegel (JSBird) > Last stop in Israel- Yad V'shem, or the Holocaust museum. Max listens to the audioguide in front of a display of canisters of gas that the Nazis used in the gas chambers

Jonathan Siegel (JSBird) > One powerful part of the museum was this 2 acre monument, dug from the limestone, roughly in the contour of Europe. On the walls, in approximate proper geographic location, are the names of the nearly 5,000 Jewish communities that disappeared during the Holocaust.

Jonathan Siegel (JSBird) > One of the cattle cars used by the Germans to transport Jews and others to the death camps

Jonathan Siegel (JSBird) > Midnight- waiting for our 17 hour flight that left at 1AM. Arrived in LA at 10:30 the same morning. Very strange

A 13 year old boy reads from the Torah, part of the tradition of becoming a Bar Mitzvah

> A 13 year old boy reads from the Torah, part of the tradition of becoming a Bar Mitzvah

A 13 year old boy reads from the Torah, part of the tradition of becoming a Bar Mitzvah

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