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 ...

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 ...