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
Try a Vegetarian Shabbat
I’ve been a vegetarian for almost twenty years, but I’m intentionally chill about it. I won’t eat meat or poultry ...
Win a Copy of The Book of New Israeli Food
I know that you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but I often do. And from the ...
Cinnamon Noodle Kugel
If I was sent to a desert island and could only bring one kugel, it would be this one.
How to Help a Sick Friend
A few months before my mother died, someone bought us a gong (someone else bought us a pretty painted tambourine, ...
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 ...