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
Last Minute Rugelach Deliciousness
It’s only a few hours until Shavuot, so now is the best time to share with you my new recipe ...
DIY Challah Cover
One week when I was living in Dublin I went to a party in a professor’s apartment on a Friday ...
First Person Grief
Last year I wrote a lot about my experiences mourning for my mother. It was an intense and exhausting year, ...
What Does This Mean??
My best friend sent me this parody video, Brokeback Beit Midrash. As you might expect, it’s a parody of Brokeback ...
Your Ideal Celebrity Shabbat Dinner
Apparently Q-Tip is into observing Shabbat since he’s been filming Holy Rollers, a movie about Chassidic drug mules. Totally awesome, ...
Eat the Cheesecake the Obamas Eat
There’s a cool article in the NYTimes today about the pastry chef in the White House. He sounds like an ...
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 ...