The “Project Mah Jongg” exhibit, which originated in New York, is making its way to Jewish museums across America, bringing back memories of bams and craks for generations of Jewish women and ...

Stay-at-home lifestyles have further eroded the rough image of mah-jongg as a game played all night by crude characters in smoke-filled gambling dens. Families and friends of all ages are now ...

Game night in Sara Linden's Potrero Hill apartment starts off with food and wine. "But not too much wine," Linden says with a shy smile. "Or else you won't win." There is talk of work and books until ...

"It's addictive," says Bauer. But why is the addiction so strong among Jewish women? "I have been trying for years to get the answer to that question," says Judi Feniger, executive director of the ...

A feverish clicking can be heard among the voices of friends as small plastic tiles are swept around a table at the Fishers Mah Jongg Center. “One bam,” “four dots,” “one crack,” “green dragon,” ...

Selma Weiss and three other players concentrate on the racks of plastic tiles before them. Then, the four women take turns picking and discarding the rectangular yellow-and-white mah-jongg tiles on ...

The dragons. The four winds. The calligraphy. The clicking tiles. The sounds and visuals are like something out of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" or "Crazy Rich Asians," but the setting is Huntington ...

Owen Chong and Greg Kuntjoro started their mah-jong group about a year ago in a living room with just four tables and 20 of ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y.—At a bar called Weather Up, a group of young women arrive, order martinis, manhattans and highballs, and prepare to make a night of it. The ancient game of Mah-jongg gained widespread ...

Kate LeGrare is the co-founder of The Mahjong Line, a go-to site for modern Mahjong sets, teachers, and more. Julie Alexander ...