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
More Ironic Than Rain On Your Wedding Day
Oy. So the Simon Wiesenthal Center is hoping to build a Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. According to the Washington ...
Who Ya Gonna Call? Jewish Ghostbusters!
Just in time for the launch of our new Magic and the Supernatural section, the New York Times runs an ...
Counting to Ten
(Cross-posted at Blogging the Kaddish) This morning I went to a different minyan than usual because it was a friend’s ...
Size Doesn’t Matter (Seriously)
Last night I met up with some of my old friends from the Jewish Society at Oxford, and remembered how ...
Mourning and the Right to Lead Davening
(Cross posted at Blog the Kaddish)Some of the rules of being a mourner seem obvious to me. I understand why ...
Klaus the Mouse in My House
Part of my hazing to New York City is, apparently, having to deal with mice in my apartment building. The ...
Keeping Kosher Chaos
There are a dizzying array of symbols found of food packaging that indicates something is certified kosher. Everything from the ...
Win $500 At Interfaithfamily.com!
Head over to Interfaithfamily.com to take a survey about your Hanukkah/Christmas celebration plans and you could win a $500 American ...
Religion and Atheism on Mass Transit
The British Humanist Association is getting ready to run some ads on London buses that reassure those who have lost ...
Favorite Jewish Shots and Cocktails For Simchat Torah
Wednesday is Simchat Torah, which generally means dancing around with the Torah, watching little kids wave some flags they made ...