Public figures are breathing new life into hateful stereotypes. We could use a Jewish crisis monster to combat them.

Superman has always been an immigrant, and, by extension, a Jewish immigrant, long before today’s culture wars. Gunn’s film merely foregrounds a theme embedded in the hero’s DNA since 1938.

Most people associate the golem story with Rabbi Judah Löew and the Golem of Prague, but Jewish history is replete with the idea that a particularly holy and righteous person, possessed of deep ...

David Corenswet takes on the iconic role of Superman, bringing Jewish representation to the character's long history.

From dust to human: A new Hallmark rom-com puts a twist on the Jewish golem legend ‘Made for Each Other,’ written by Israeli-American screenwriter Adi Blotman, centers around a mystical 16th ...

The Golem of Brooklyn By Adam Mansbach One World, 272 pages, $18 No creature from Jewish folklore has made as sizable a literary dent as the Golem. There’s a reason we keep bringing him back ...

A golem has awakened in my bedroom. Rather than clay, this one is made of stone. Like other golems he is unable to speak — for now, that is. Yet, unlike such mythical creatures of the past he was not ...

ChatGPT is no more alive than the legendary golem of Prague. It is said that the Maharal — the great Rabbi Judah Loew of 16th-century Prague — fashioned a magical creature of river mud in ...

For example, in 1965, the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot built a new computer and Gershom Scholem, the renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism, suggested that it should be named Golem Number One.

The first horror movie franchise, he points out, centered on the Jewish Golem monster and was produced in the 1910s, years before “Nosferatu,” the well-known silent vampire film from 1922. The ...