Symbols of Covenant: The Stateless Jew and the Jewish State
By Shelley Neese, The Jerusalem Connection “The Wandering Jew”— a popular figure in medieval Christian folklore—walks the earth alone until Judgment Day, cursed for offending Jesus on his way to the cross. In some variants of the story, he is a Jewish shoemaker named Cartaphilus, who, when Jesus stopped to rest on the road to…