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
The Secret History of Sheitels
Many married Orthodox women cover their hair with wigs as a sign of modesty. Some of the wigs are pretty ...
A Different Kind of Dance
It always confused me that the religious guys I know are horrible (secular) dancers because they almost all shuckle on ...
LimmudNY: The Responsibility of the Teacher
When you’re attending four or five sessions a day at a conference like LimmudNY, you start to compile an internal ...
LimmudNY: Let’s Not Muddy This Up With Jewish Texts
So I just went to my first session here at LimmudNY 2011. It was called Relationships and Sexuality Consumerist Culture ...
Teaching Civil Rights to Jews
Many of us know that Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel walked with Martin Luther King Jr. at the Selma Civil Rights ...
Debbie Friedman, Bringing Communities Together
NPR did a nice piece about the death this weekend of Debbie Friedman, a musician whose music impacted thousands and ...
Jews: The Happiest People?
According to a new Gallup poll, Jews are the best! We are the healthiest, happiest, wealthiest, and generally most hep ...
Jewish History in 30 Seconds
Yesterday Jeremy posted a link to the quiz of the top 52 cities in the world in terms of Jewish ...
Praying (and Crying) with Lior
Way back in 2007 when I was at LimmudNY I saw a short version of the documentary Praying With Lior, ...
Don’t Steal Torahs
If you’re thinking that’s pretty obvious, good for you. If you’re thinking, “Hey, why the heck not?” you’re a lot ...