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The Summer’s Hottest Video Game Hero Is a Brainy Jew Named Hershel
Jewish mothers worried that their darling ones are spending too much time playing video games may find comfort in knowing that one of the summer’s hottest gaming titles features a well-educated young...
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‘The Last Guardian,’ A New Video Game, is a Meditation on Empathy
It’s 2016, the topsy-turvy year that saw a rodeo clown ascend to the highest office in the land, so it makes perfect sense that the rawest, most profound expression of empathy and compassion we’ve seen...
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Today on Jewcy: Nazi-hunting video game protagonist B.J. Blazkowicz is...
Like a vaguely exotic Golden Age film star, rumors have been circulating for years if William Joseph “B.J.” Blazkowicz is secretly Jewish. Of course, Blazkowicz isn’t an actor, or even a real person;...
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A New Video Game Raises a Thorny Question: Can the Medium Address the Holocaust?
The Call of Duty franchise is to video games what the Marvel Cinematic Universe is to film, a fertile source of sequels that make big bucks irrespective of quality. In 2016, the series hit $15 billion...
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How the Shin Megami Tensei games make appropriating Jewish culture fun.
A couple of months ago, the Kabbalah center down the street from my house closed down. I wasn’t surprised at all. I’m not trying to knock Madonna, or any of the other devotees of appropriated Jewish...
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Mocking German Censorship, Israelis Develop Video Game with A Menacing...
Released this past October, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is a blockbuster video game in which the protagonist, William Joseph “B.J.” Blazkowicz, is a hardened Texas Jew who fights the Nazis who,...
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