Art is truly a hope: "In our company, which is also a microcosm of humanity, actors from warring nations coexist: Israelis, ...

We have tended to imagine machines as either being our slaves or enslaving us. Martha Wells, the writer of the “Murderbot” series, tries to conjure a truly alien consciousness.

The story goes that the rabbi received a divine order in a dream: “You shall create [a] Golem from clay and may the malicious anti-Semitic mob be destroyed.” So he fashioned a powerful giant ...

Loew and Golem by Mikoláš Aleš, 1899. Might a golem help make a minyan? Over 300 years ago, a rabbi considered the question, now cited in countless discussions about the implications of ...

In Jewish folklore, the Golem of Prague tells the story of a powerful being created by Rabbi Judah Loew in the late 16th century to protect his community. According to legend, Rabbi Loew ...

That scene sets the tone in “The Golem of Brooklyn,” a new darkly comic satire from author Adam Mansbach, which envisions the mythical Jewish creature being brought to life by a stoned art ...

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 ...

No creature from Jewish folklore has made as sizable a literary dent as the Golem. There’s a reason we keep bringing him back. Talmudic literature refers to Adam as a “golem” before he was ...