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
How Many Jewish Languages Can You Name?
Here on MJL we cover the basics—Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Aramaic–but there are others. This week I learned about Juhuri, the ...
Elena Kagan, Esther, and Being Outed as Jewish or Gay
So Elena Kagan is Obama’s nominee for Supreme Court Jusice, and I, for one, am elated. I love that there ...
Guess Who’s On JDate?
A bunch of really adorable non-Jews, including Chase Crawford of Gossip Girl fame. According to Bollywood News: Speaking to Now magazine, the Gossip ...
Did I Fall Asleep and Wake Up in 1939?
There’s all kind of furor brewing over this woman named Stephanie Grace, a student at Harvard Law, who sent out ...
Apparently, All Jews Are Men
It hasn’t been an awesome few weeks for Jewish women. There has been a lot of brouhaha about the RCA ...
Jewish Google Storytelling
You know that famous Parisian love story commercial for google? The nice people at YouTube have made an easy little ...
Brises for Non-Jews?
Can someone explain to me why Sandra Bullock’s baby had a bris? Does this make any sense to anyone? According ...
Pre-State Israel, in Color
If you close your eyes and try to picture the Holocaust, or the birth of the State of Israel, you’re ...
Why Join a Jewish Community?
Jane Roper has a fascinating article in Salon about how she recently joined a church with her family after years ...
Adon Olam
A short hymn that summarizes the Jewish understanding of God.