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
Pride Month is Coming: Tremble and Make a Jihad
Pride Month (June) is almost upon us and preparation for big events are already underway within the Jewish community. Get ...
Yom Yerushalayim: Break Out the Kugel.
Tomorrow is Yom Yerushalayim, or Jerusalem Day. This year I didn’t do much for Yom Haatzmaut, but I can’t let ...
Hasids and the Amish: Match Made in Heaven
Somehow I missed this a few weeks ago when it was fresh news, but apparently there was a group of ...
Isolation vs. Assimilation When It Comes to Religious Marketing
There’s a fascinating post over at Church Marketing Sucks about why it’s offensive and unethical for religious institutions to rip ...
A Brothel in a Shul?
Jezebel has a recent post about depictions of sex workers: Laura Agustin is concerned that all sex worker news is ...
Religious People are Nicer
A study by Harvard professor Robert Putnam has found that religious people are better citizens, better neighbors and generally just ...
Everybody Loves Pardes
Pardes , a non-denominational Jewish learning institution in Israel, has a new promotional video. These cheese factor is a bit ...
Beer+Torah
I’ve just started a chevruta with my friend Rachel. We’re learning Samuel, and we’ve decided to meet every week before ...
The Quality of Israeli Sperm is Down
I have been saying this for years, people: The quality of Israeli sperm has declined alarmingly in the last decade, ...
Say Kaddish For Conservative and Reform Judaism?
I saw this article before I left for work this morning, and the first two paragraphs had me spitting nails, ...