video games
Leviticus, the Video Game
A new iPhone game turns the Bible’s most detailed book into fast-paced, educational entertainment
Real Speech in Virtual Worlds
What a character named Adolf Critler means for the future of video games and the First Amendment
Revenge of the Nerds
Video games are the medium of revenge, and for Israeli boys killing Hitler in Wolfenstein, that meant addressing some deep traumas
God Got Game
Video games teach us everything we need to know about the tension between destiny and free will
Why Doesn’t Euroleague Recognize Tel Aviv?
A basketball video game refers to ‘Maccabi Electra’
Love and Death
Long before the Supreme Court deemed violent video games free speech, the 1940s cultural critic Gershon Legman noted Americans’ paradoxical views on sex and violence
History Game
A new Facebook game, created with help from an American Jewish history professor, introduces players to the complex history of immigration in America
Thumbs Up
This week’s parasha, an exhaustive account of ritualistic slaughter, can teach us a lot about video games, a medium governed entirely by the mechanics of prescribed motions
Sky Scrapers
Jacob’s ladder, the subject of this week’s parasha, is a lot like the great video game Minecraft
The Napkin Artist
Remembering Yiddishist, linguistics scholar, Holocaust survivor, and painter Edward Stankiewicz, who died this year
When Berlin Meant Business
Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.
In Praise of Dairy Restaurants
A visit to B&H Restaurant on Second Avenue brings back memories of milchig establishments of yore
Curse of the Survivor
Singer Vera Gran was haunted by allegations of Nazi collaboration. A new book asks if survival made her guilty.
