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
Taqwacore wisdom
All weekend I’ve continued my obsession with Michael Muhammad Knight’s book The Taqwacores, which follows a bunch of young Muslim ...
Depression and Prayer
A few years ago, right about the time I was becoming religious, I started getting hit with Seasonal Affective Disorder. ...
Matisyahu: Return of the “King”
Although I can’t actually remember whether he played “King Without a Crown,” that iconoclastic first single that a friend swore ...
Israeli Government Twitters the War
It’s mostly PR, but it’s a kind of PR that the Israeli government hasn’t historically shown the capability to produce ...
2008: The Year in Fast Forward
2008 was so quick, and so tornadolike in its ferocity, that you may have missed some of the bigger events ...
The Conspiracy of Covering Up
Because it’s impossible to write enough stories on Hasidic Jews and sexuality, Nextbook has an article on dressing modestly in ...
Bush = Santa
Dammit! I so wasn’t going to mention Santa on the Interweb today. And I was never going to mention the ...
Subverting – and Loving – Islam
A few weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times did a story on Muslim punk-rock teenagers — and we ran a ...
Sephardic Music on Demand
This week in New York is the Sephardic Music Festival, and though, if you’ve been to a Sephardic music concert ...
News Roundup: The World, Minus Menorahs
I’m feeling over-Hanukkah-ized these days. This is, granted, the week where, in Jewish media, real news moves over to make ...