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
A Vow for the Nine Days: ‘Fess Up
One of the customary practices in these nine days is the avoidance of meat: it’s the way we commemorate the ...
Inveterate Missionizing
On the elevator this morning, a courier — this legit-looking man in his late 30s or so — took out ...
Becoming Communist
These past few days have been weirdly Communist-centric for me. First, my book that’s coming out in October. Then there’s ...
Women Can Sing, Officially
For anyone who missed the public outcry last week about the Israeli youth group Bnei Akiva’s new single-sex policy on ...
Free Music Monday
Everyone’s favorite Yemenite Jewish DJ, Diwon, is almost finished producing his new mixtape, The Tribe Beat Guide to Yiddish. (Yes, ...
Radiohead supports Lipa Schmeltzer
I’ve been thinking about what are arguably the two biggest scandals in the music industry right now: illegal downloading and ...
It Takes a Nation of 150,000
In Black Orthodox hip-hop M.C. Y-Love’s song State of the Nation, he reels off statistics gleaned from the National Jewish ...
Islamic Movement: Knowledge is Dangerous
Chabad is nothing if not well-organized. Each year, they release a set of uniform lesson plans to literally hundreds of ...
Lion Bites Rabbi
That’s the title of the original post from Nosson Slifkin, the Zoo Rabbi, and it’s hard not to use — ...
When Archie Met Sammy
JTA reporter Jacob Berkman, who was himself the subject of these pages a few weeks ago, today reported that Michael ...