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Posted on March 2, 2020

What’s New about a Mosque in Rahat?

As a resident of the Negev in the south of Israel, discoveries here especially interest me. This last year, one of the earliest mosques in…

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Posted on November 1, 2018

Change is Hard

Historical facts are presented as hard fast numbers. Historical periods start and end on particular dates as marked by large scale changes in sovereignty or…

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Posted on July 18, 2017

Fundamentals in Hebron

Ownership and control of holy places is very much in the news these days in Israel.  Whether from committees sitting thousands of miles away or…

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Posted on July 17, 2017

Which Way to St. Stephen’s Gate?

Getting directions in Jerusalem can be confusing. So many place names are similar, and the same place can be known by many names. This is…

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Posted on February 14, 2017February 14, 2017

Take Out the Trash, Please

As much as anything else, the production of trash marks human lives.  What we dump in the trash tells quite a lot about who we…

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Posted on December 16, 2016December 16, 2016

Holey Walls

One of the most beautiful attributes of Jerusalem is the use of stones in building.  Because stones are natural, the variance in the facings leads…

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Posted on November 29, 2016November 29, 2016

el-Muqaddasi’s Jerusalem

In Israel, although peoples come and go, place names often remain.  In the push to connect the present to the past, written and oral names…

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Posted on March 2, 2015March 2, 2015

Traditional Location

It spoke to me.  It yelled at me, so several weeks ago at the Gofna Archaeology conference across the street from my house, I bought…

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