Mea Shearim – Tradition over all
In Fotografie,Israel Auslandssemester
Mea Shearim is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Jerusalem. Mostly orthodox and ultra orthodox jews are living here. It feels a bit like walking in another century because almost everybody is wearing traditional clothes, women in skirts, men with sidelocks and beards.
Some days before i passed Mea Shearim there were riots in the streets,
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,633023,00.html
still some garbage containers were burning and kids were blocking cars.
