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
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s “A Heart Afire”
As one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi has labored his whole life to make ...
Tweet One Your Love
Okay, I’m not Stevie Wonder, and chances are you aren’t, either — but let’s not forget the grand Jewish tradition ...
How to Hate the Gays
Last night I was working at our local co-op market. The crowd there is pretty diverse — Hasidic Jews, Caribbean ...
Gay Jewish Hip-Hop Saturday Night
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.In hip-hop, Soce the Elemental Wizard is as self-aware as it gets. Not that you ...
The Tagged Tanakh
When user-testing the Tagged Tanakh, the Jewish Publication Society’s attempt to user-navigate the Bible, my first reaction was, this is ...
David Berman’s The Portable February
David Berman, poet and former lead singer of the Silver Jews, has always been four parts poet to one part ...
Michael Jackson, Power Girl, and the Deeper Meaning of Chests
I just took a walk outside on the rare lunchtime spent in the company of fresh air — well, as ...
Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg!
If you haven’t schooled yourself on The Goldbergs — one of the first American sitcoms, a virtual one-woman show created ...
“I Keep Kosher, But I Eat Dairy in Restaurants”
How many times have you heard that one? Growing up, it wasn’t a big surprise: our family would go out ...
Reading the Signs
Yesterday was funny and sad and moving and poignant and pretty awesome, all told, the kind of day that makes ...