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
Dew and Blessings
Tomorrow is December 4, and you know what that means — in the traditional prayer service, we switch from saying ...
Mumbai: breaking news, broken news
In the middle of the attacks, while trying to reach the Chabad rabbi, Rabbi Levi Shemtov dialed every number he ...
After Mumbai
A reader wrote in, asking me to post this article, which is the most complete account I’ve found so far ...
Terrorism in Mumbai
According to NPR, at least 78 people have been killed in a terrorist attack in Mumbai, and 200 more are ...
Jews and Muslims Clash in…oh, never mind.
Here’s a nice little story in which religious people of different persuasions stick it to the man. No, even that ...
Anorexia in the Orthodox World
The Yeshiva University Observer — actually the official newspaper of Stern College, the women’s school — is a great snapshot ...
A Self-Hating Jews Double-Header
A sentence was handed out in the case of eight Israeli teenagers, members of a neo-Nazi gang, who beat up ...
Obama: the Orthodox Reaction
As noted earlier today, racism in the religious Jewish community has been more intense — and scrutinized more intensely — ...
And the High Priest goes in for the field goal…
In the mid-’90s, Israeli television personality Gil Kopatch brought Rabbi Mordechai Gafni on his sports/talk/news show to discuss the weekly ...
Hard Core Religion
The L.A. Times ran a piece a few days ago on Muslim punk-rock teenagers, which mostly served as an excuse ...