Joseph Babcock, a businessman who traveled to China after World War I, introduced mah jongg to the U.S. in the 1920s and it quickly became a fad. There’s even a tile rotation or “tile dance” called ...

Two, three or — usually — four players take turns drawing and returning the tiles, trying to put together one of numerous hands determined by the National Mah Jongg League, the arbiters of the ...

Mah jongg, the centuries-old tile game of Chinese origin, is a favorite pastime for American Jewish women. A fad in the United States in the 1920s, it regained popularity in 1937 when a group of ...

Temple Shalom is selling Mah Jongg cards, but the order deadline is coming up soon. Order your cards from Temple Shalom and get them before they are available in retail outlets.