Next stop Jerusalem

What a city! It is the crossroads of the three great religions, and seems to represent the best and worst in all of us.  Lots of political baggage.
Due to our slapdash planning, we are faced with a major Jewish  holiday, which begins tomorrow at sunset and ends Thursday at sunset. ( Everything Jewish will be closed, including transit). So, we are trying to  concentrate on the Jewish sites today and Tuesday.  Beginning with the Western Wall, (the last remnant of the Temple), Doug and I were obliged to go our separate ways.  They are definitely not into mixed-gender worship.  We could feel the pulse of the faithful, as men and women approached the wall.  Later (together and with an ice cream cone), we wandered the narrow alleyways of the Jewish Quarter.)
We are lodging at the Three Arches YMCA - a beautiful Moorish styled landmark built in the 1930s, as a place of international peace among faiths and nations.  It is directly across the street from the King David Hotel, famously bombed in 1946 by Irgun (right wing Zionist underground group).  I feel immersed in history and faith at this moment.