When my father was a middle school kid at the Yeshiva of Hartford, his preoccupations were relatively simple: He imagined being one of the few great Jewish baseball stars, and thought a lot about ...

Zak Bagans' work continues even in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. He's back in the fourth installment of Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures: Quarantine and he's finally opened the infamous ...

Dr. Lilian Steiner isn’t really listening. Yes, she hears the thunderous strains of the Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” playing from an upstairs neighbor’s apartment above her psychiatry practice in a ...

Emraan Hashmi Starrer ‘Dybbuk: The Curse Is Real’ Is The Official Remake Of The Malayalam Film ‘Ezra'(Photo Credit: Still From Movie) Amazon Prime Video has released a riveting trailer of the highly ...

In a first for Paranormal Lockdown duo Nick Groff and Katrina Weidman tonight, the pair incite responses from restless spirits using haunted artifacts — including a dybbuk box. The pair use the ...

Not every ghost story hitting the boards this season features the likes of Scrooge — and San Diego Rep doesn’t necessarily give a figgy pudding if its upcoming world-premiere production counts as a ...

A psychiatrist whom I worked with once observed that it is easier to personify evil than good. Coming from a Christian tradition, and with an anthropological bent, he suggested that in most cultures, ...

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The Dybbuk: Drama. By S. Ansky. Directed and designed by Shmuel Shohat. With Ayelet Shadmon, Yaron Sancho Goshen and Nimrod Eisenberg. (Through Sunday. Habimah at Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 ...

“The Dybbuk,” the 1914 play written by S. Ansky that is a pre-eminent work of Yiddish theater, dramatizes the Ashkenazi Jewish myth of a dislocated soul that inhabits a living person. Ansky’s play ...

1. "The Dybbuk Box is a vintage wine cabinet that is said to house a malicious spirit known in Jewish mythology as a ‘dybbuk.' A dybbuk is an evil possessing spirit believed to be the dislocated soul ...