Matthue Roth
Matthue Roth's newest book is Automatic. He is also the author of three novels and the memoir Yom Kippur a Go-Go, and is an associate editor at MyJewishLearning.com. His screenplay 1/20 is currently in production as a feature film.
Articles by Matthue Roth
My Favorite Jewish Writer
Recently, Moment magazine asked me to write an entry for their “Speaking Volumes” series. They approach current Jewish authors and ...
Caregiver’s Rosh Hashanah: High Holiday Poetry Contest Winner
This is the first-place winner of MyJewishLearning.com and Shemspeed.com’s High Holiday Poetry Contest . Read our other winners, Wet Toes ...
Wet Toes: High Holidays Poetry Contest, #2
Earlier today, we announced Dragon Tefillin, the third-place winner in our High Holiday Poetry Contest, sponsored by MJL and Shemspeed. ...
Dragon Tefillin: High Holidays Poetry Contest, #3
This year’s High Holiday Poetry Contest–sponsored by MJL and Shemspeed–was a bit of a whopper, as my Australian family would ...
iHappy Rosh Hashanah
Okay — maybe you look at more email forwards and cheesy Facebook photos than I do. (It’s not that hard ...
Poetry Contest — Get It in Now!
How are you feeling about the New Year? Excited? Trepidatious? Nervous? Whatever’s going around in your head, you should get ...
The Blaxploitation Shofar
This post came our way courtesy of Alan Jay Sufrin, singer/guitarist/bassist/keyboardist for the band Stereo Sinai. He’s also the official ...
Beginnings: Jewels of Elul
I decided to be Orthodox in the middle of college. I was on scholarship to a very big school, and ...
We Are Not Eaten By Yaks
The noble explorer C. Alexander London, who was last seen blogging about visiting Jews in strange places for MyJewishLearning, has ...
The Invisible Bridge
Today I’m reading — and dreaming about — the novel The Invisible Bridge.There’s something about Julie Orringer’s writing style that ...