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Popular English word game isn’t lost in Hebrew translation
When his family moved to Israel in 1998, Robert August-Dalfen probably never envisioned the day he would wear a banana costume.
Death camps featured in neo-Nazi Monopoly game
A German neo-Nazi gang reportedly created a version of the game Monopoly in which death camps were substituted for railroads.
The Chametz search takes a new turn
Professor Plum in the library with a lead pipe? That might be the solution to a game of “Clue,” but in the new board game “Chametz: The Search Is On!” the more likely culprit is Professor Slivovitz, who is sullying the house with bits of a dreaded cupcake.
Grampa’s Advice: Pass on ‘First-Tell’
It took me six years of being a grandfather to accept the fact that my grandchildren may not be more brilliant or athletic than everyone else\’s.
But Will Shawn Green Fast?
When the Dodgers face the San Francisco Giants this weekend in a three-game series beginning in San Francisco this weekend, most Jews will be in synagogue for the holiest day of the year.
Still Got ‘Game’
Like Budd Schulberg\’s \”What Makes Sammy Run?\” Phillip Roth\’s \”Portnoy\’s Complaint\” and other milestones of Jewish American literature, Will Eisner\’s \”Name of the Game\” explores the depths of Jewish self-loathing and assimilation. But what separates \”Name\” — a tale chronicling two immigrant families that merge through marriage for social advancement and then suffer destructive consequences — from the others, is that Eisner\’s work is a comic book.\n\n