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(Images courtesy of Max Fefer and Hit Point Press/Design by Mollie Suss)
Posted inCulture

With goblins, spellcasters and holiday heroes, board game makers are imagining new Jewish worlds

by Lindsay Eanet May 12, 2023

(JTA) — Running a not-so-Zagat-rated deli, dropping into a Chinese restaurant for Christmas Eve dinner and acting out a bat mitzvah that involves a vampire — for contemporary board game fans, […]

Doan Trang's cover art for Raphael Falk's "Lucid: Sea of Dreams" roleplaying game
Posted inGames

Enter a ‘sea of dreams’ in Jewish-themed role-playing game

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 1, 2022
Game designer Max Fefer based Hanukkah Goblins on Eric Kimmel’s classic children’s book, "Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins." (Art/Kali Hayes, KH Illustration)
Posted inHolidays

Take on the Hanukkah goblins in Oakland designer’s new tabletop game

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 8, 2020December 9, 2020

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