Japanika, a popular Tel Aviv sushi chain recently opened a new location on Shlomtzion Hamalka Street. Japanika's elegant décor and hip ambiance meld well with its Shlomtzi neighbors, and diners will be pleased with the extensive selection of kosher Japanese delicacies. If the sushi was a hit with those refined Tel Aviv palates, after all, it must be good.

Jerusalem bars tend to aspire to being either nightlife hotspots or hipster dives. Slow Moshe is surely a member of the latter category, but it's also a "local," making the place an anomaly for the city. Owned and managed by the namesakingly leisurely Moshe Levi, this modest establishment is a hub of Nachlaot culture. Here, blue collar descendants of Kurdish immigrants share beers with Bezalel art school bohemians and American newly religious hippies. But it's not just about the beverages: Slow Moshe also hosts occasional reggae parties, Friday morning used clothing fairs and art showings.

The geopolitical fallout of the British government's nigh-schizophrenic policies in Palestine and the rest of the Middle East is still being felt, and hotly debated, to this very day, but the opening of Palestine to Europeans led to at least one undeniable triumph for modern civilization: the discovery and study of thousands upon thousands of antiquities from one of the world's most historically rich areas. The Rockefeller Museum in east Jerusalem stands as testament to that bounty.

The Jewish Quarter is the second-smallest of the four quarters, and simultaneously its oldest and newest; while this section of Jerusalem has been home to a Jewish population since antiquity, save for the comparatively brief period in which Jews were expelled from the city by Roman authorities, the quarter's architecture dates almost entirely to the late 1960s and early 1970s. The recapture from Jordan in 1967 provided an unprecedented archaeological opportunity; before reconstruction commenced, archaeologists carved deep into the earth and excavated incredible remnants of Jerusalem's ancient history.