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
Egyptian, Jewish, and Glam…and Exiled.
Here’s something you don’t get every day: Sylvain Sylvain, guitarist for the ’80s glam-punk band The New York Dolls, was ...
Obama’s Secret Desires Revealed.
I’m not going to reprint it (although, if you’ve got two and a quarter seconds, it’s easy to Google), but ...
A Modest Agriprocessors Proposal
Not that this hasn’t been beaten, bludgeoned, and shechted to death, but: Rubashkin’s is in even more trouble. Yesterday’s front-page ...
Live Jewish Poetry Slam!
Ben Bresky, the most prolific (if not the most obsessive) Jewish and Israeli music blogger out there, also hosts a ...
Palestinian Man Allegedly Steals Babies; Obama on the Case
As Alan Jay Sufrin says: Score one for those against interfaith marriage.A woman in Chicago is claiming that, on a ...
New articles! New articles!
Here at MyJewishLearning, we’re always looking for new ways to serve you better…See that? My first week here, and I’m ...
Female Rabbis, Male Stand-up Comedians
Today on his blog, Frum Satire starts a discussion about whether women could be Orthodox rabbis. It’s interesting, less in ...
Blogging the Aggadah
The Aggadah is the non-Jewish Law-intensive part of the Talmud–that is, the part with all the cool stories and lasers ...
More Bulldozer Evilness
Another bulldozer attack in Jerusalem, this one a few hundred meters from the hotel where Barack Obama will be staying ...
The Three Weeks
The destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem is commemorated with a period of mourning.