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# The Shivah: Kosher Edition brings Jewish culture to iPhone
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/shivah-kosher-edition-brings-jewish-culture-iphone/
- Published: 2013-11-14T18:34:34.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:13:12.000Z
- Description: Dave Gilbert, our neighbor New Yorker and bossman at Wadjet Eye Games, has revealed that he is rereleasing his acclaimed point-and-click adventure The Shivah for iPhone and iPad next week. The cheekily-named Kosher Edition gives a makeover to his 2006 game about a rabbi unraveling a murder mystery.
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, Adventure Games, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Dave Gilbert, our neighbor New Yorker and bossman at Wadjet Eye Games, has revealed that he is rereleasing his acclaimed point-and-click adventure *The Shivah* for iPhone and iPad next week. The cheekily-named *Kosher Edition* gives a makeover to his 2006 game about a rabbi unraveling a murder mystery.

Don’t expect the rabbit hole to delve to deeply into midrashim, however. [When we spoke to him about religion](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/interviews/there-jewish-identity-videogames/?ref=killscreen.com) in relationship to his games, Gilbert admitted that he is more of a cultural Jew, and not very well-versed in the inner happenings of synagogues.

> *When I came back to New York, as a way to pretend I was working, I decided to make a game. I wanted to make something Jewish as a way to reconnect with that part of myself. It ended up being* The Shivah*. I had this idea of a rabbi who wasn’t right about his beliefs and was facing the consequences. My mother was like, “What do you know about rabbis!”*

*The Shivah* is worth your attention not only because Gilbert is an expert storyteller and adventure game designer, but also because it’s one of the most refreshing perspectives on the age-old genre out there. In what other game can you say that you get to step into the beard of a rabbi?