How a game called Klaberjass became an integral part of Jewish life in South Africa—and beyond
This Hanukkah, consider buying the game that enables you to divvy up your friends as two warring political parties
A live-action role-playing game set up a scenario with ‘inmates’ and a ‘furnace.’ What could go wrong?
For kids growing up in Israel in the 1970s and 1980s, before cable TV and video games, summer meant apricots and the apricot-pit game called gogoim, mindless child’s play with political overtones
In the new Jewish Edition of the word-guessing game Taboo, developed by two twentysomethings and a Jewish-games company, clues lean a little bit Zionist, and “Adam Sandler” was deemed too secular
A family falls under the spell of the popular iPhone game Angry Birds, which teaches players to sacrifice theirs lives to destroy the houses of unarmed enemies. What’s not to like?
A crossword puzzle celebrating Judaism’s denominations
A chess amateur shows how the game has mesmerized through the ages
