Matthue Roth
Matthue Roth's newest book is Automatic. He is also the author of three novels and the memoir Yom Kippur a Go-Go, and is an associate editor at MyJewishLearning.com. His screenplay 1/20 is currently in production as a feature film.
Articles by Matthue Roth
After Mumbai
A reader wrote in, asking me to post this article, which is the most complete account I’ve found so far ...
Terrorism in Mumbai
According to NPR, at least 78 people have been killed in a terrorist attack in Mumbai, and 200 more are ...
Jews and Muslims Clash in…oh, never mind.
Here’s a nice little story in which religious people of different persuasions stick it to the man. No, even that ...
Anorexia in the Orthodox World
The Yeshiva University Observer — actually the official newspaper of Stern College, the women’s school — is a great snapshot ...
A Self-Hating Jews Double-Header
A sentence was handed out in the case of eight Israeli teenagers, members of a neo-Nazi gang, who beat up ...
Obama: the Orthodox Reaction
As noted earlier today, racism in the religious Jewish community has been more intense — and scrutinized more intensely — ...
And the High Priest goes in for the field goal…
In the mid-’90s, Israeli television personality Gil Kopatch brought Rabbi Mordechai Gafni on his sports/talk/news show to discuss the weekly ...
Hard Core Religion
The L.A. Times ran a piece a few days ago on Muslim punk-rock teenagers, which mostly served as an excuse ...
Out of the Extraordinary
Today on Nextbook, I wrote an article about the brilliant Motown funk of the Israeli colony of Dimona, a Hasidic ...
Signs that Jewish trendiness is dying
Okay, I just followed a Google Ad which led to a website advertising this book — a 636-page edition, limited ...