Howard Schwartz grew up devouring the myths of quarreling Roman gods and towering Greek Cyclopes, and as an adult he kept asking the question he first posed to his teachers as a young boy: Is there ...

Folklore and Folklife Professor Dan Ben-Amos spoke Monday evening about Jewish folklore, saying that the stories of Jewish tradition are "one step short of mythology." Ben-Amos's 75-minute lecture, ...

Take heart, anti-Semites. Or be depressed. Because the myth on which so much anti-Semitism is built finally now is exposed as one more fantasy, one more falsehood, one more libel. This is the myth ...

Jewish-themed horror movies are not unknown, but they are relatively rare. Certainly they are less common than those which rely on Catholic mythology or other forms of Christian folklore. One has to ...

When Jewish comic book creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created the Black Panther character for Marvel, neither probably knew that they owed a debt of gratitude to a long-dead coreligionist. But as a ...

I recently got a text message from an old friend from college (who's probably the nicest girl on the Earth, so I'm not even remotely upset) asking me about a common Jewish myth: "Wait, is it true that ...

This coming Tuesday marks the release of our first Dread Original film, The Golem and we couldn’t be more excited for you to see it! Hailed as “Refreshing in its originality and impressive in its ...

I was excited for the London theater company 1927’s new play “Golem,” written and directed by Suzanne Andrade, which plays at the Lincoln Center Festival through July 31st. Really, I was. From Pete ...