Tamar Fox
Tamar Fox is an associate editor at MyJewishLearning.com. She has an MFA in fiction writing from Vanderbilt University, and a BA from the University of Iowa. She has worked as the editor of the religion blog at Jewcy.com, and is on the Editorial Board at The Jew and the Carrot. She spent a summer as a fellow at Yeshivat Hadar, and was a Senior Apprentice Artist for four years at Gallery 37 in Chicago.
Articles by Tamar Fox
Finding God Through Non-Jewish Music
Last week in my review of Rabbi Elie Kaunfer’s book, Empowered Judaism, I wrote about how I’ve never had the ...
Family Meal Traditions
Over at TheKitchn, blogger Ronee Saroff writes about her family’s tradition of spending Friday night without electricity: About a year ...
1st Time a Korean Boy Band is Featured on Mixed Multitudes
You know what really gets me pumped to celebrate a simcha like a bat mitzvah or a wedding? A Korean ...
Purim 2010: A Costume Roundup
This year was definitely my best Purim ever. I had two different costumes, I heard megillah at night and during ...
How Do I Become an Empowered Jew?
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, the Executive Director of Mechon Hadar, has written a new book called Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim ...
Wise Fridays: Young Leadership
The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership. –John F. Kennedy ...
Explaining Kashrut to an Ignoramus
“You know I don’t eat kosher food,” my friend David responded when I asked him if he wanted to come ...
Some Good News For Orthodox Marrieds
I have been thinking critically about marriage, recently. Partially this is because more and more of my friends and mentors ...
Wise Fridays: The Value of Independence
Without moral and intellectual independence, there can be no national independence. —David Ben Gurion Find more Wise Fridays wisdom on ...
Build a Prayer
If you’ve spent any time with a siddur in the past few years, you’ve probably wondered how you’re supposed to ...