![]() ![]() Handler is also the author of a children’s book, “The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming,” about an angry latke telling the Hanukkah story while running into various Christmas symbols who are uneducated about Jewish history. “The careful reader will find quite a few rabbis.” The Baudelaires are Jewish! I guess we would not know for sure but we would strongly suspect it, not only from their manner but from the occasional mention of a rabbi or bar mitzvah or synagogue,” he said. And, the main characters of his beloved gothically dark and humorous “Series of Unfortunate Events,” which was adapted into a 2004 film and a 2017 Netflix series, are Jewish. Handler grew up in a household that “hovered between Reform and Conservative Judaism,” he told Moment Magazine in 2007. ![]() ![]() Once the golem becomes destructive, the only way to kill it is to remove the letter “aleph,” which leaves the remaining word for “death,” or in Hebrew, “met”. ![]() In the classic golem legend, the Hebrew word for “truth,” “emet” is inscribed on the golem’s body, giving it its powers. ![]()
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