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.


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Articles by Tamar Fox

Witness Tahara

I have always wanted to join a Chevra Kadisha, a Jewish burial society, but I was nervous about what it ...

Hosting Meals is No Picnic

I inherited my love of hosting Shabbat meals from my mother. Growing up we had company for at least one ...

Rape and the Holocaust

Recently on Jewniverse we featured information about Dr. Gisella Perl, a gynecologist who provided abortions to women in Auschwitz who ...

Win a Copy of Kosher Elegance!

Kosher Elegance: The Art of Cooking With Style is a new kosher cookbook by Efrat Libfroind, and it lives up ...

The Butter Ten Commandments

Shavuot is on the horizon, which means everyone is preparing for a holiday whose main ritual is eating blintzes. Don’t ...

Wise Fridays: Born as an Object

“Man is born as an object, dies like an object, but possesses the ability to live like a subject, like ...

Jews: Still Rich

Are you a Reform Jew? Yes? Can I borrow $5,000? I only ask because a new study by the Pew ...

Do You “Like” My Name?

A couple in Israel recently decided to name one of their children Like, because of liking things on facebook. They ...

JDate and a Holocaust Movie

Jdate is sponsoring a new program that’s something like a Jewish Film of the Month club. You can get a ...

They Have to Be Carefully Taught

A ten-year-old boy shot his father to death two weeks ago. The father was a politically active neo-Nazi, who was ...

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