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.


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Articles by Matthue Roth

The Good Book? Well, It’s Okay…

One interesting note about the publicity surrounding The Good Book, Slate editor David Plotz’s chronicle of reading the Bible: it’s ...

Unmasking Agunot

Among the religious community, there’s a huge problem of agunot — that is, women who want a divorce from their ...

Alan Kaufman Interview: The Radical Subversion of Zionist Art

Alan Kaufman has gone through a lot of cocoons. A beat poet who went big with his hugely-successful anthology The ...

Purim Gets Rowdy 5769/2009

What is it about Purim that makes everyone want to go out and get down?Yes, I know — it probably ...

How Jews Look

This isn’t how it was supposed to be.We at MyJewishLearning often find ourselves in a predicament. On one hand, we’re ...

Marcus Freed: Being King Solomon

Marcus Freed is a man of many talents — actor, writer, poet, impresario. He is the inventor of Bibliyoga, a ...

Inglorious Basterds

Jonas E. Salk posited that the cure for most diseases lay right in the disease itself — that, by administering ...

Wedding Bell Blues

Last night, Stereo Sinai–that is, my friends Alan Jay Sufrin and Miriam Brosseau–got married. It was a ceremony worthy of ...

More Secret Nazis

Okay, from the so-creepy-you-could-stay-awake-forever file — remember how last week, a Latin American town with an abnormally high birthrate of ...

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