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Nathan Steuer is the 2022 World Champion of Magic: The Gathering. (Courtesy of Steuer/ via JTA)
November 19, 2022, 1:56 am
Meet the Jewish world champion of Magic: The Gathering
California native Nathan Steuer has parlayed the game he grew up playing at Jewish summer camp into a $100,000 tourney win, and possibly his dream career
By jacob gurvis
An ancient gameboard from Tell es-Safi/Gath. (Maria Eniukhina/Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project)
June 8, 2022, 11:32 pm
At Goliath’s Gath, board games give relatable insight into daily lives of Canaanites
New research into the proliferation of senet, an Egyptian game, shows osmosis of dominant culture and local adaptation; game still played today in Sinai
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Tel Aviv's Scrabble club returns to international tournaments for the first time in two years, starting February 11, 2022 (Courtesy Tel Aviv Scrabble Club)
February 8, 2022, 1:35 pm
Israel’s Scrabble wordsmiths plan first tournament in two years
The Tel Aviv Scrabble Club prepares for 13th Israeli Scrabble Open, including players from abroad
By Jessica Steinberg
From left: Cedric Waters Hill, circa 1915,and Elias Henry Jones, circa 1915 (Jones, 'The Road to En-Dor,' 1919)
June 22, 2021, 11:14 pm
How a Ouija board sprung two British officers from a WWI Ottoman prison camp
In new book, ‘The Confidence Men,’ author Margalit Fox delves into spiritual trends and psychological mechanisms that enabled brilliant buddies to hoodwink Turkish captors
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Taking a tour in Tel Aviv's Sarona complex, one of many being offered in the city over the Passover 2021 holiday (Courtesy Riki Rahman)
March 24, 2021, 9:28 pm
With an exodus from COVID rules underway, this Passover offers events galore
Before, during and after the Seder, Israelis can celebrate the festival with concerts, workshops, games and tours, now that most pandemic restrictions have been lifted
By Jessica Steinberg
One of the creators of the Secret Hitler board game, Chicago designer Max Temkin, is Jewish. (Amazon/via JTA)
January 15, 2020, 12:55 am
‘Secret Hitler’ board game removed from three Montreal toy stores
Game set in 1933 Germany divides players into opposing camps of ‘liberals’ and ‘fascists,’ draws ire of Canadian Jewish group
By JTA
Secret Hitler board game, as shown on Amazon.com
December 28, 2019, 3:57 am
Jewish group urges Amazon to stop selling ‘Secret Hitler’ board game
In top-selling product, team of fascists tries to install Nazi dictator in power; Anti-Defamation Commission calls it ‘an insult to the memory’ of Holocaust victims
By ToI Staff
Tom Werneck poses behind a board game at the Bayerisches Spielearchiv archive for board games in Munich, southern Germany, on December 12, 2018 (Christof STACHE / AFP)
December 26, 2018, 4:30 am
German board games guru’s offerings include Trump, Nazis
Tom Werneck, owner of one of the world’s biggest tabletop collections, says he doesn’t care about winning: ‘Playing is about connecting with people’
By Michelle Fitzpatrick
German soldiers standing in King Street, Saint Helier, at Charing Cross (now site of La Croix de la Reine monument) during the occupation of the Channel island of Jersey in World War II. (Bundesarchiv Bild)
From the WebAugust 30, 2018, 8:02 pm
‘Occupation’ board game found in attic on UK island pokes fun at Nazis
Monopoly-inspired game from Jersey in the English Channel dates from the 1940s, when Nazis held the island, and subversively mocks wartime life, The Guardian reports
X marks the spot: Game boards in the games room discovered at a northern Gedera excavation. (Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority)
July 31, 2018, 9:48 am
Spa and game room found at 1,700-year-old pottery workshop in Israel
Old-time work and play: With 20 hot and cold baths and a kitted-out break room, an ancient ceramics factory near Gedera could teach employee-friendly Google a thing or two
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Kids play 'Jewish Luck,' the first Russian-language Jewish board game, created by Konstantin Zinkoff. (Courtesy)
March 3, 2018, 9:37 am
Pass the Western Wall, collect $200: The first Russian board game about Israel
A fun and educational game teaches Israeli history while making a little history of its own
By Julie Masis
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