Question: What is the story behind the rumor about why Jews have horns? How did that get started?

Answer: To my knowledge, it began with a mistranslation of Exodus 34:29—“…and Moses didn’t know that his face shone when He [God] spoke with him.” The Hebrew word for the

verb “shone” is “karan” and is phonetically close to the word “keren,” which can mean horn.

The error was compounded by the Italian artist, Michelangelo, in his sculpture of Moses, which portrays our leader with two horns.

With best regards,
Rabbi Boruch Clinton

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