Clothes Make the Man

This photograph was taken in May 2015 in Jerusalem during a trip to Israel and Jordan. I like the contrast presented by the men in Orthodox Jewish clothing and hats with the man in more contemporary, secular clothing.

Jewish men who are more stringently Orthodox often wear black suits, and many Hasidic men wear suits reminiscent of the style Polish nobility wore in the 18th century, when Hasidic Judaism began. Notice that the man on the far right is wearing a long black coat, and the man in the middle is wearing a tzitzit, a four-pointed garment with fringe, under his shirt. Both men are wearing the traditional black hat, and both have long beards.