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
God Wants You To Get Laid (Or Eat Chocolate Cake)
I love this article in the New York Times about a pastor who told his congregation of some 20,000 people ...
A Baby By Any Other Name…
JTA is currently featuring an article about the challenge of choosing a name for a Jewish baby, so I thought ...
What Happens Then?
Last week an older man who I know from various minyanim on the Upper West Side mentioned that he was ...
Rabban Gamliel, Mormons, and People Who Aren’t There
Last night I went to the Mechon Hadar beit midrash for a session on prayer leaders, and what qualities a ...
The Best Learning You’ll Do Offline–Yeshivat Hadar
During the summer of 2007 I was a fellow at the first summer of Yeshivat Hadar, an intensive 8-week egalitarian ...
Just Like The Sopranos, But With Thicker Chest Hair
A known Israeli mobster, Yaakov Alperon, was assassinated on Monday in Tel Aviv. Alperon’s car blew up, killing him and ...
National Adoption Day
Today is National Adoption Day, which you may have guessed by the title of this blog post and also by ...
New Jewish Foodie Blog
Ruti Abusch-Magder, a scholar-in-residence at the University of Chicago Hillel is doing outreach based around food and gender (sometimes together, ...
The Case of the Disappearing Church
Last year there was a sad story of a synagogue in Tajikistan that had to be destroyed because the government ...
Taylor Swift’s Biblical Success
I am unabashedly overjoyed about Fearless, the new Taylor Swift album. It is freakishly good. And I’m not the only ...