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
Rav Ovadia Yosef Has Some Catching Up To Do
The New Republic blog The Plank has a funny post about Sayyid Ali Kameini’s website. Now, I’m not surprised that ...
I Smell a Sitcom!
There’s a headline on ynet today that I am begging someone to make into a sitcom pilot or the premise ...
Huge Diamond Heist, It Must Have Been the Jews
I love heist movies (Bank Job, Inside Man, Ocean’s 11 etc) and heist books (The Great Train Robbery and anything ...
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Mazel Tov!
Here at MyJewishLearning, we’re serious about celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. We started preparing a few weeks ago when I made ...
That is So Not Frum
It makes me insane when people say, “Hey, I know this Orthodox person who does X, so it must be ...
Professor Foxy, Antony and the Johnsons at Shul, and Winning Chicken Soup
Things have been pretty busy at MJL this week, so I haven’t been able to blog about some of the ...
Who You Callin’ Amalek?
If you were paying attention at Megillah reading on Monday night and Tuesday you probably noticed that the megillah is ...
No Porn on Shabbos!
I don’t like porn. I definitely don’t like porn on Shabbat. It’s not a double mitzvah if you’re doing it ...
Dayschool Drama
I’m just speculating here, but I bet one of the things parents think about a lot is: What do I ...
Papal-infused Judaism
There was an awesome article in the Washington Post on Sunday about the Jews of four cities in the South ...