Please visit Toby’s JPIX, the Jewish Photo Bloggers’ Carnival, with lovely photos by many photographers, including one by Soccer Dad of Niagara Falls. I’ve always wanted to go to Niagara Falls, and now my daughter does, too. Can we convince the rest of our family that it is worth the drive?

Soccer Dad, the founder of Haveil Havalim, hosts HH #280. Thank you for reminding Jewish photo bloggers to submit to JPIX.

There is a recently formed new blog carnival called the Jewish Book Carnival. Thank you for including my post on The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus From Old Cairo to the New World by Lucette Lagnado.

Thank you to Batya for hosting (and managing) KCC and for including two of my posts in the Pre-Holiday KCC. I especially love the Chossid’s breakfast photos at a hotel in Jerusalem – yum.

As a reminder, the next JPIX, Jewish Photo Blogger’s Carnival, will be hosted by Toby Who Wishes She Were a Photographer. Please submit your posts by Thursday, August 19. Thank you.

I would write these posts:

• Review of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, by Lucette Lagnado, a fine, moving, fascinating book
• Review of Isaac’s Torah, by Angel Wagenstein
• Millet Pilaf recipe or my nickname for it, millaf
• About braces? And kids?

I have had time to putter in the garden, and so our family has enjoyed salad with nasturtium and nasturtium flowers.

First, Toby hosted Haveil Havalim today on A Time of the Signs blog. Then she volunteered to host JPIX in August on I Wish I Were a Photographer blog. So here’s a toast to Toby.

Submit links with photos related(even loosely) to Jewish topics to JPIX and submit posts on Jewish or Israeli topics to the weekly Haveil Havalim.

Thanks also to Devo and Ilana-Davita who will be hosting upcoming JPiX as well.

Welcome to JPIX, the Jewish Photo Bloggers Blog Carnival.

  
Ilana-Davita shows us Sanary-sur-Mer, where German refugees stayed in the 1930′s. In the center is the Saint-Tropez synagogue. On the right Ilana-Davita photographed the Verona Synagogue.

  
A Mother in Israel shows off her daughter’s painting on the left. Aviva’s sheep wishes you Shabbat Shalom in the center. On the right is an anemone captured by Quietus Leo.

  
Batya asks you to caption the wedding photo on the left. In the middle she shows us Jerusalem, with the light rail and the string bridge. On the right Batya has beautiful photos of Tel Shiloh.

  
Devo asks you about the sculpture on the left. Rahel of Elms in the Yard shows us a Byzantine ruin (perhaps). Mazel tov to Mottel and his wife on the birth of a baby boy.

  

Mrs. S. shows a lovely calendar of children’s drawings on the left. On the right she presents photos from Jerusalem in 1967. On the Chossid’s blog I discovered a beautiful photo of Arak.

   

Robin shows us Jerusalem, Jaffa, the flower Queen Anne’s Lace and a recent dust storm.

  

On the left is a cyclist from Salute to Israel Parade photographed by Leora (that’s me). In the center are eggs, eaten at the first meal of shiva. On the right is an ice cream sundae, painted by Leora in honor of Shavuot.

The next JPIX hosted by me will be in December 2010.

Update: Toby of I Wish I Were a Photographer will be hosting the next JPIX on August 22. Please send links with your favorite pics.