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holidays In the throng of shoppers at Mahaneh Yehuda, Becky aimed her camera in all directions, at an Orthodox woman pressing into a melon, then a pair of brawny young men in blood-soaked aprons at a butcher stall. She took shots of mounds of olives, wheels of cheese in glass cases, trays of smoked holidays fish with their mouths gaping open, oranges as big as grapefruit and grapefruit the size of small melons. "Let me peel you an orange," she said. For a minute Eli didn't understand, since he'd never heard the word "peel" in holidays English before. In Hebrew, "peel" meant elephant.
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