Musrara
On Saturday, the Municipality's Hebrew walking tour was to Musrara. Somehow the closest I'd ever gotten to Musrara was the Italian hospital (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.co.il/2006/12/italian-hospital.html ), now Education Department offices.
Musrara is easy enough to get to: take any downhill street or path from Helene Malka. It is a lovely neighborhood which went through a period of overcrowding and poverty between the Independence and Six-Day Wars, when people with enough money to live elsewhere considered it undesirable because it was right on the border. Musrara houses at least ten art and cultural institutions, and it is one of the few Jerusalem neighborhoods in which Jews of various religious practice, and none, live together without overt hostility.
Copyright 2014 Jane S. Fox
Musrara is easy enough to get to: take any downhill street or path from Helene Malka. It is a lovely neighborhood which went through a period of overcrowding and poverty between the Independence and Six-Day Wars, when people with enough money to live elsewhere considered it undesirable because it was right on the border. Musrara houses at least ten art and cultural institutions, and it is one of the few Jerusalem neighborhoods in which Jews of various religious practice, and none, live together without overt hostility.
Copyright 2014 Jane S. Fox
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