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
Pentateuchs for Prisoners
Recently, we received a letter in the office from a person in jail, asking if we can send him a ...
Africans, Emigrating to Israel, Shot by Egypt
NPR reports that refugees from Sudan, Eritrea and Kenya, fleeing the economic and health crises in their own countries, are ...
A Vice President, a Sacred Space
I went home for Shabbat. Home meaning my parents’ house, which despite knowing I shouldn’t — I have an apartment ...
More Magneto Fun
Okay, remember when we learned about the Jewish heritage of various comic-book characters yesterday? Now, we’re going to see it ...
Magneto in the Holocaust
This was announced a few months ago, and now a 6-page preview is up. But I haven’t seen it making ...
Making Ties, Cutting Hair
Yesterday, I convinced my beneficent editor to let me out early in order to go to a friend’s son’s upsheren ...
The First Jewish Food
Wikipedia bouncing is one of my favorite things to do. If we use “surfing” to describe crawling the web, just ...
Kafkafkafkakfa
Our newest batch of articles includes an essay of mine on Franz Kafka, a Prague writer from the turn of ...
A Hairy Situation
As if Agriprocessors/Rubashkin’s isn’t keeping PETA’s hands full enough, Italian animal activists, citing Pope Benedict’s well-known love of cats, are ...
Snoozing on the Shoulders of Giants
This post on Jewschool got me thinking. It’s a pretty common story in our days: a Jewish teenager’s grandfather died, ...