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
9/11 And the Hasidic Rabbis
In like fifty years, when people are less sensitive about 9/11, I would like to be in a punk band ...
[Insert Your Own Penis Joke Here]
Ah, the circumcision debate. As a single woman with no kids I get to just sit back and watch everyone ...
Israel In Maps
Today is Yom Ha’atzmaut, and though I normally spend Israel’s birthday dancing and eating falafel, this year I’m limiting myself ...
Big News: Shul Is Boring
I love when major news outlets come out with stories about something as if it’s a new! novel! idea! when ...
The National Day of Prayer Mystery
Two years ago I wrote for Jewcy about how offended I was by the National Day of Prayer which could ...
Yom HaZikaron
I would not redo high school for a billion dollars. I’m pretty sure the damage done by my four years ...
Who’s Your Mommy?
About six months ago I went out to coffee with some friends who, after about an hour of chitchat, gently ...
Nice Jewish Girls Get Hit
This weeks marks the anniversary of an event I don’t really like to talk about. At some point in college ...
Careful, Or I’ll Slap You With A Moist Piece of Liver
Sometime during all of the Agriprocessors brouhaha I heard that there had been a kosher meat boycott in 1902. I ...
In Memory’s Kitchen: A Cookbook from a Concentration Camp
A few years ago I came across a book called In Memory’s Kitchen, edited by Cara De Silva. The book ...