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
Papal-infused Judaism
There was an awesome article in the Washington Post on Sunday about the Jews of four cities in the South ...
Is Sex a Basic Human Right?
Over the weekend I watched one of my favorite movies for the millionth time: High Fidelity. In the movie, the ...
Jewish Word Clouds
A couple of weeks ago, at a family bat mitzvah, my table was challenged to name all 10 commandments, a ...
Life Used to be Normal
A year ago today I had a fairly normal day. I had lunch with my friend Jaya. I went to ...
Jews and the NAACP
I was reading something in The Economist yesterday that mentioned that NAACP was started by “a group of Jewish, white ...
Louis Brandeis, First Jewish Supreme Court Justice
Brandeis was also the first high court nominee subject to public hearings.
Member of the Tribe
Recently, a friend’s father died suddenly, and I found out a few days later through a mass email that one ...
Stop the Presses! Jewish Book and Manuscript Auction
The New York Times has a fascinating article today about the Valmadonna Trust Library, a collection of more than 13,000 ...
Jewish Music Sale! $5 for Great Tunes
Craig N Co Music is having a huge sale, all CDs going for only $5. This means the full stock ...