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
Buying Local in Jerusalem and Supporting Palestinian Farmers
MJL contributor and generally awesome person Leah Koenig has an article at Tablet right now about about a mini-shuk in ...
Gospel Music at Shul: Yay or Nay?
There’s this weird trend going on at my shul recently. Hadar has always been big on people bringing in new ...
Pies Don’t Lie
God bless Mary-Louise Parker. Seriously, the pie recipe she gives in the July issue of Esquire magazine has changed my ...
God Loves Goat Cheese
Don’t ask me how I know that–I just do. And it’s National Goat Cheese Month, which is the best time ...
Lady Gaga Is Her Own Tznius Police
Lady Gaga is in Israel for a concert, and she has apparently made statements about not being quite so wild ...
Should the Israeli Army Be Religious or Secular?
There’s a fascinating article over at the Christian Science Monitor now about the increasing level of religiosity in the Israeli ...
Is Separate Seating Offensive?
An English MP named Jim Fitzpatrick was invited to a constituent’s wedding last night, and he and his wife attended, ...
Don’t Bother Working on Your Relationship With God
Over at experimental theology Richard Beck has a story about a girl who came to him and said something about ...
The Evangelicals are Coming for Us!
Remember the Promise Keepers? No? Well they were a big group of Evangelical men who liked to meet up in ...
Big Matzah Ballin’
This is why New York scares me: We had the world’s largest matzah ball in our midst. It contained 1,000 ...