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
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 ...
Shmuley Boteach: Interview with the Rabbi
The kosher sutra.
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 ...