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
Chinese Takeout in the New Yorker
Last week the New Yorker published a longish piece (registration required) about Orthodox rabbis who criss-cross China certifying that various ...
Faster, Faster: Asara B’Tevet
Today is the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tevet, and as such is a minor fast day. You ...
Kaddish: It’s Different for a Girl
I haven’t written much about actually saying Kaddish in the past few months, partially because it has become so much ...
The Holocaust, the First War in Lebanon, and Gaza Today
Last night a friend and I went to go see Waltz With Bashir, the animated Israeli film about memories of ...
Break Out the Beer-nukiah: Latke Quiche Recipe and DIY Chanukiyah
So here we are in the last few hours of Hanukkah. I took a pretty low-key approach to the Holiday ...
Happy Holidays From Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Every year the Queen of England gives a short speech on Christmas Day that is broadcast on the BBC. She ...
Back to the Ghetto, Yemen-style
The son of the head of Yemenite Jewish community (that is, the Jewish community still in Yemen) was shot and ...
Latke Alternatives
I love potatoes and I love most things fried, but honestly, I have a hard time getting down with latkes. ...
Blending Traditions on Hanukkah
Motherlode, the parenting blog at NYTimes.com, has a really interesting post with a new twist on the age-old problem of ...
Are Nuns Too Forgiving?
I’m dying to see the new Meryl Streep movie, Doubt, about a nun with a bone to pick, but in ...