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
A New Haggadah to Get Excited About
Guess what? The Maxwell House Haggadah is being reissued this year, and it’s new and improved…but let’s face it, probably ...
Today Could Have Gone Better
For many years my homepage on my computer was the Jerusalem Post, not because I found them to be the ...
The Shiva Sisters: Awesome or Inappropriate?
My friend Jen has a fantastic blog where she spotlights something found on the internet and polls the readers on ...
The Week Before Purim Is Legally Obligated to Drag
It’s Friday, Friday, Friday afternoon, and that means it’s time to look back at the week:Have you tried our Hamantaschen ...
Not So Fast
There are a only a couple more hours left of Taanit Esther, the Fast of Esther. As per usual, this ...
A Couple Who Could Use a Ketubah
I find ketubahs to be pretty non-romantic. They’re basically glorified prenuptial agreements, so it seems weird to paint flowers all ...
Alterna-taschen
The New York Times has a fun article on traditional hamantaschen, and some newer riffs on the classic. Fillings of ...
Is This Real?
You know when you see a YouTube video and you cannot tell if it’s real or a spoof? This video ...
The Opposite of a Scandal
As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of scandals. There’s the “I can’t believe that someone who ...
Everybody’s Jewish
People who are apparently Jewish, or at least Jew-ish according to the latest news cycle:Valerie Jarrett Charlie Sheen John Galliano’s ...