Leaders like ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt and ZOA’s Mort Klein have successfully conflated any criticism — however justified — ...

Not those, either. The golem I’ve been trying to understand is a figure from Jewish folklore, a giant humanoid being created of mud or clay and animated through secret incantations to defend the ...

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 ...

“In Judaism, a golem is a beast made from clay, which is activated by the Hebrew word for truth, emet, and defends vulnerable communities,” Rakowitz told Thompson in a 2022 interview.

But the golem isn’t the only supernatural entity we can learn from as we enter the AI age. Another mythical creature infused ...

save the Jews. Using permutations of the names of God, the Maharal brought the golem to life by writing “emet” on the creature’s forehead — Hebrew for “truth.” The legend is rooted ...

While there are numerous versions of this Jewish legend, the notion that letters animate the golem is common to them all. The mass of molded earth becomes lifelike when its maker intones secret ...

So he fashioned a powerful giant creature called a golem “out of clay from the banks of the Vltava River and brought it to life through rituals and Hebrew incantations,” per Kayla Green’s ...