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

Egyptian, Jewish, and Glam…and Exiled.

Here’s something you don’t get every day: Sylvain Sylvain, guitarist for the ’80s glam-punk band The New York Dolls, was ...

Obama’s Secret Desires Revealed.

I’m not going to reprint it (although, if you’ve got two and a quarter seconds, it’s easy to Google), but ...

A Modest Agriprocessors Proposal

Not that this hasn’t been beaten, bludgeoned, and shechted to death, but: Rubashkin’s is in even more trouble. Yesterday’s front-page ...

Live Jewish Poetry Slam!

Ben Bresky, the most prolific (if not the most obsessive) Jewish and Israeli music blogger out there, also hosts a ...

Palestinian Man Allegedly Steals Babies; Obama on the Case

As Alan Jay Sufrin says: Score one for those against interfaith marriage.A woman in Chicago is claiming that, on a ...

New articles! New articles!

Here at MyJewishLearning, we’re always looking for new ways to serve you better…See that? My first week here, and I’m ...

Female Rabbis, Male Stand-up Comedians

Today on his blog, Frum Satire starts a discussion about whether women could be Orthodox rabbis. It’s interesting, less in ...

Blogging the Aggadah

The Aggadah is the non-Jewish Law-intensive part of the Talmud–that is, the part with all the cool stories and lasers ...

More Bulldozer Evilness

Another bulldozer attack in Jerusalem, this one a few hundred meters from the hotel where Barack Obama will be staying ...

The Three Weeks

The destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem is commemorated with a period of mourning.