ADRIAN J BOAS

Although the term "Fake News" is a quite recent one, the phenomenon of course, is not. Faking it is an age-old characteristic of...

Over several years, I visited Dr Ze'ev Goldmann in his tiny apartment in a home for the elderly in Jerusalem. Dr. Goldmann, who I have...

When a few years ago the Jerusalem municipality was building the first phase of its light rail network, it was commonplace to joke about...

I live in Jerusalem but my work is in Haifa, a two hour drive via the toll-road known as Route 6, which since it was constructed has...

As a child I once received a beautiful gift from an old lady, a friend who lived nearby and who knew of my delight in nature. It was a...

Taking a group of students along the western city wall of Jerusalem yesterday, we noted with dismay the present state of a part of...

In an indirect way I suppose that for the extreme good fortune of having grown up in Australia I owe a debt of gratitude to the appalling...

On Aug 22 1914 the French army experienced the greatest number of casualties in a single day by any army in the First World War. At...

Struck down by the flu, I have spent much of the last few days in bed, curled in a foetal position, trying my best to fade away like the...

I first rode a camel exactly fifty years ago this July. The last time I rode a camel was… exactly fifty years ago this July. I found the...

Early in the thirteenth century a German pilgrim named Thietmar set out in the company of “…certain Syrians and Saracens…” They travelled...

A half century after the event there are plans abroad to have what is being promoted as a "reincarnation" of the four-day 1969 festival...

Like the historian, the archaeologist works with material that is often immensely informative, but equally often, highly perplexing. The...

When a large population, with its particular cultural attributes and lifestyle, is relocated to an entirely different region, it...

In my childhood my parents, for a variety of reason, made a number of moves from house to house, sometimes to different neighbourhoods,...

In an effort to distance itself somewhat from its radical far-right image, in 2017 Austria’s Freedom Party replaced its symbol, the...

The remembrance of smells: the apricot sweetness of a bowl of freesias, the aroma of coffee brewing in the pot, the scent of a freshly...

Through the accounts of their travels, pilgrims provide a window into many aspects of life in the Latin East that would be lost to us...

Every so often there is an effort on the news channels and web sites to discuss something positive and pleasant that has happened, but...

There is a bird in Australia that has a remarkable ability to repeat to perfection any sound it encounters, natural or artificial. The...