The Thing is Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s perfect union of the golem and the dybbuk
As the Marvel superhero and the ancient rabbis both knew, grief is just love persevering
The closest thing the Marvel universe had to a real superhero is gone
Steve Ditko, a loner and a genius, died last month at 90. His spirit played a big part in guiding me back to religion.
It has so many superheroes! Most of them created by Jews! Time to nerd out!
The question is not as far-fetched as it sounds
Nazi Gorillas, ‘Swastika Sharks,’ booby-trapped Hitler-assassinating paintings, and a hot Third Reich vixen
A new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society offers Jewish-inflected insight into superhero history—but misses some opportunities to broaden the discussion
A drawing by an American, discovered in a Jerusalem junk shop, reveals German Jewry’s lost grandeur
For a boy with little exposure to religion, the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons led to a spiritual awakening—that the supernatural may not be the same as the divine
Howard Chaykin’s revolutionary comic-book view of urban life