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
A Stay at the Talmud Hotel in Taiwan
Way back in 2007 I wrote a blog post about the weird Chinese trend of loving all things Jewish. Kind ...
Celebrities on JDate
I manage my best friend’s JDate profile, which means that when he recently got a message from a 51 year ...
A Modest Proposal: Avoid Travel
Yesterday morning I was at airport at five in the morning. After a grueling security line, I was instructed to ...
Nope, No Big Xmas Plans
Isn’t the holiday season wonderful? Don’t you just love the beauty of it all? Or actually don’t you secretly hate ...
Post-Hanukkah Detox
Hanukkah is over, and much as I love a holiday that gives me an excuse to eat fried cheese, I ...
Real Live Learning Opportunities: Yeshivat Hadar and Limmud NY
Lots of things are great to do online. I love paying my bills online (well, maybe love is an overstatement), ...
Hanukkah Snuggies, Oy!
There’s not much we as Jews can really unite under. We tend to agree that the Holocaust was bad (and ...
If MJL Produced a Rock-Opera Short…
I was too young to ever see this commercial on TV, so I just discovered it via YouTube now. First ...
What My Thanksgiving Dinner Will Be Like*
On the plane this morning I ended up being seated next to a guy who is in rabbinical school, and ...
A Different Kind of Holiday Travel
I leave for the airport in about fifteen minutes. I’m excited to be home for Thanksgiving, and also looking forward ...