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
Steal This Matzah
Over at the Awl there’s an awesome post about something called Moonstrips which are apparently awesome and made of matzah ...
Jewish Girls Should Get Married
On Sunday night I had a conversation with my ex about marriage. Every time he sees me he ends up ...
How to Get Fired in Hollywood/Paris
Admitting anti-Semitism is not a good career move. Unless, I guess, you work in early 1940s Germany, or maybe contemporary ...
Win a Gorgeous Jewish Cookbook!
Here at MJL we are very proud of our frequent contributor and generally awesome friend Leah Koenig, whose cookbook, The ...
Wise Fridays: The Most Love
“The highest position in the love of people must be taken by the love of man, and it must extend ...
Don’t Compare Yourself to the Gestapo
You know what I try to avoid? Calling myself a Nazi. I mean, for one thing, it would be false ...
Why I Suddenly Understand Queen Esther
Sometimes I wonder what I would write about if I wasn’t Jewish and my mother hadn’t died. It’s kind of ...
Yes, Jews Owned Slaves
So, an article I wrote about the Jews of Suriname was published in the Washington Post over the weekend. And ...
Non-Jews Take Ketubahs Now, Too
I have mixed feelings about ketubot. On the one hand, they’re beautiful marriage contracts. On the other hand, they’re actually ...
Cantillation Survey
If you’ve been to a few different Torah services you’ve probably noticed that everyone who chants from the Torah has ...