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
Kosher Beef Gets a New First Name
Well, except for the name part. According to Vos Iz Neias, Rubashkin isn’t the only game in town — or ...
Permitted graffiti
I received this from a (non-Jewish) teacher at a school that’s largely not Jewish. It’s a classroom experiment — and, ...
God on Trial
You know that story wherein a group of rabbis in a concentration camp assembles a beit din — a team ...
How do you help…?
This morning on the subway, I was scribbling away in my notebook — scrunched up, as usual, between a 300-pound ...
Religious. Gay. You’ve heard this, right?
Earlier this year, the Israeli website HOD launched. It’s a Hebrew acronym that roughly translates to “religious and gay.” It’s ...
Song of the Week
It’s not a secret that I’m a huge fan of the band Stereo Sinai. There are a lot of folks ...
Ultra-Orthodox Activism
On the right-wing Haredi news site Vos Iz Neias, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz takes the Orthodox world to task on the ...
Sarah Palin *hearts* Jews for Jesus
While not necessarily true, the reports are leaking out: Sarah Palin is a little more, uh, fundamentalist, than her “pit ...
Jews, Comics, Kaddish and Crosses
I was internetless in the mountains for a bit, so I missed the whole furious flurry about how Magneto might ...
P(r)aying for a Blessing
On the way out of work yesterday, I was a little dazed — possibly by the sun, possibly by the ...