my New Year’s Day discussing Pokemon with a friend’s 8 year old son.It turned into a wonderful conversation as he fleshed out the details of playing his Pokemon game on the GameBoy Advance.He discussed, at length, the strategies needed to capture different varieties of Pokemon and train them.From choosing different Pokemon based on elemental match-ups, to completing multi-tiered quests, to battle commands, he was thinking multiple steps ahead and making decisions based on the information available.And he was loving every minute of it.

Pokemon just finished celebrating their 10th anniversary and really launched onto the American pop culture scene around 1998 with the release of the original GameBoy games and the first movie in 1999.Kids from ages 6 to 16 were playing it, and are still playing.Many of theSign up for our COVID-19 newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest coronavirus news throughout New York City

Why did the Orthodox Jewish woman cross the road? Because a Yiddish sign ordered her.

A bold new religious decree was bolted to street trees this week that orders women to move to the side when a man is walking towards her on the sidewalk.

The red, yellow and white plastic sign, first noted in the Jewish watchdog blog Failed Messiah, is roughly translated, “Precious Jewish daughters, please move over to the side when you see a man come across.”

Orthodox activists said the signs should not be taken seriously.

“There are some hard-core Hasidim in Williamsburg who think they still live in 19th-century Ukraine and they consider interaction between the sexes, in even the