ICCY

• About a quarter of the way along Emek Refaim http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/emek-refaim.html from Liberty Bell Park, a pentagonal sign points to the International Cultural Center for Youth. Classes from Yoga to Karate, for infants to pensioners, meet inside. Upstairs there is folk dancing on Tuesday evening, and a melodious minyan (http://www.geocities.com/shira_hadasha/) on Shabbat and holidays.
• On alternate Friday mornings in the summer, vendors set up tables under blue awnings in the large courtyard. Near the entrance, artists sell graceful handmade glassware. Farther along it’s t-shirts and colorful carry bags. I found deeply dyed silk skirts from India, flirty and knee-length or layered and full length, interspersed with gold-threaded mini wraps to wear over jeans (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/daughter-of-salwar-kameez.html ) or to delight a four-year old who likes to dress up as "a princess like Cinderella." Rose-patterned glass pitchers and plates from Turkey and Roumania (thick and thin) are ridiculously cheap. Lemon liqueur is deliciously smooth.

Copyright 2006 Jane S. Fox