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
Buzz Me In: An Apartment Dweller’s Shabbat Dilemma
Salon is featuring a question about someone who doesn’t want to let shomer Shabbat people into her building: Dear Cary, ...
This Just In: Israeli Kids Are Pushy And Angry
File this under: Duh.International study: Israeli kids irritable Recent World Health Organization report shows Israeli children exhibit more signs of ...
Did Jews Commit A Pogrom in Hebron?
In Haaretz, journalist Avi Issacharoff writes about his experiences yesterday when he was covering the evacuation of Jewish settlers from ...
It’s All AgriProcessors All the Time
Over at Jewcy they’re running another Rubashkin themed story by failedmessiah Shmarya Rosenberg, and featuring an old post of mine, ...
My Father’s Paradise–Interview With Ariel Sabar
I have an admitted bias towards anything related to Aramaic. My dad studies modern Aramaic, and one of my best ...
God Is Taking Care of Kentucky
I’m kind of hardcore about separation of church and state. Most of the religious things that people want to bring ...
The Danes Like Their Men Uncut, And Ugandans Prefer Theirs Cut
In Denmark, a bill was proposed which would prohibit the circumcision of any men before the age of 15. Ynet ...
See A Fake Dead Pope
Just last week I was thinking about eulogies and funerals, and of course here at MJL we have a number ...
Eulogies, Truth, and Bad Memories
There are extensive rules for giving a eulogy, and we touch on them in our article on eulogies, though it’s ...
You Sell Gay Priests?
I’m a big fan of religious controversy. I like it when people stand up and say things that make any ...