Bizarro Torah

spark joyful connection to Jewish learning with playful experiments across pop culture, sci-fi, horror, and roleplaying games

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  • The Pardes Institute

    The Pardes Institute

    The Pardes Institute is a secret educational institution that trains Jewish miracle workers and monster hunters. Created for a game of KINGDOM. Read more

  • The Freedom Flyers

    The Freedom Flyers

    A prompt for a game of KINGDOM that gives the Exodus story a Star Wars twist. Read more

  • Let’s Play: Kingdom

    Let’s Play: Kingdom

    KINGDOM by Ben Robbins is a tabletop roleplaying game about how the choices of a community shape its fate. Read more

  • Star Wars Episode X: The Flight to Freedom

    Star Wars Episode X: The Flight to Freedom

    Star Wars scenario whipped up as a demo for the guys at Judaism Unbound. Created for my CHUTZPAH AND CHOCHMAH, a Jewish hack for LASERS AND FEELINGS. Read more

  • Queer Jewish Women: The Hidden History

    Queer Jewish Women: The Hidden History

    In my final paper for the “Jewish Discontinuity” class I took with Judaism Unbound’s UnYeshiva, I created a hidden lineage of queer women from the perspective of a queer woman from the past who was also a Torah and Talmud scholar. Read more

  • Judaism and the avant-garde

    Judaism and the avant-garde

    I’m usually perplexed by the rigidity of some people’s notions about what Judaism is and what it could be. The way I see it, the spectrum of artistic creation has always included both the traditionalist and the avant-garde. This may seem out of left-field, but I view Judaism, in part, as an art form. To… Read more