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
Behind the Scenes at the Knesset
I learned most of what I know about the American government from The West Wing, which is probably why I ...
Rejected Team Names for Israeli Baseball Teams
Betar Pogroms Tel Aviv Gestapo Jerusalem Crusaders Beer Sheva Blood Libelers Modi’in Elders of Zion Tevaria Terrorists Ashkelon Arab Blood ...
Feeling Sorry For Myself
I am a champion whiner, but even I have to admit that there comes a time when we each need ...
Making Tea on Shabbat
Even though I mostly drink coffee, on Shabbat and holidays I often prefer tea. There’s just something about tea that ...
Eat Normal Food
We’re closing in on the end of this godforsaken holiday (har!) and I can practically taste the pizza I’ll be ...
If You Don’t Use Protection, Hitler Wins
In the rowdy conversation that followed my first seder this year there was discussion of which one of my cousins ...
How Do You Mark Your Passover Kitchen?
Until last year, my mother did the bulk of the Passover preparations in our family, which of course included tons ...
Passover, A Time to Feel the Breeze All Over
I get frustrated with the Jewish world pretty much every day, but I have never in my life thought, “You ...
God’s Sarcastic Sense of Humor
This is like the Holy One’s version of “Pull my finger.” (Via http://www.rebelart.net/diary/?p=634)
Who Knows Thirteen? (Answer Must Be In Ladino)
It is well established that my family is as dorky as it gets when it comes to languages and linguistics, ...