Hemad Nazari, who was born in Rasht, Iran, documented shepherds in northern Iran for his project "Shepherder".
Forget the shepherds in Arcadia.
Southeast of Baghdad, gunmen killed five shepherds in a field.
He wanted to try different things – he formed a folk band, the Bad Shepherds, in 2008.
FOR generations, Jim D'Addario's ancestors worked as shepherds in summer, string-makers in winter.
Still, shepherds in California, the largest sheep ranching state after Texas, are the lucky ones.
Shepherds in sheep-pelt coats still make their own cheese, flowery rakia and smoked sausage.
Amiel Vardi, a classics professor at Hebrew University and one of the founders of Ta'ayush, was with the shepherds in South Mount Hebron when the video was recorded.
The desert shepherds in their scratchy robes undoubtedly existed, and Israel's defeats — the Temple in its sacredness destroyed by Babylon and Rome.
For some of us, Christmas reaches all the way back to those ancient shepherds in the first chapters of Luke, to that angelic announcement in the night.
He prefers the famous monks of New Skete who raise German shepherds in Cambridge, N.Y., to Scientologists who raise money in Hollywood.
