…she attended a Quaker school and developed close friendships with some of the school’s few African-American students. For Fox, these friendships created an enduring interest in African-American life. Fox also…
…Iraqi Kurdistan. “It’s in between the lines in how people talk about Mizrahim. There is a lack of awareness about racism” Tamar says. Tamar identifies as a Sephardic Jew because…
…to resist the Mighty One,” he said sadly. I respected him because he could see beyond himself and his pain. “This is my decision,” he said. “Onan will be Tamar’s…
…and Mai have flourished, in no small part because my parents sponsored them. Sam Fox, Bev Fox, Thai Tran, Mai Tran, 1979. But both of these examples from my own…
…school. I am in a combined BA and BFA program at New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and the Lang College for Liberal Arts. TAMAR: With so much going…
…Books, $21.99) features Tamar and Orli, childhood friends living in Jerusalem in the early days of statehood. The two become lovers, separate, and then reunite—after Tamar’s husband Eli, abandoning their…
…unexplored from a historical and academic standpoint. Sandra Fox’s Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America (Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture, February 2023,…
In Fox: Poems 1998-2000 (WW. Norton & Co., $21) Adrienne Rich can no longer be accused of favoring a feminist polemic over the art of poetry. As she writes in…
Yiddish poems about mothers, in memory of my mother, Miriam Pearlman Zucker, 1914-2012. Photo of Chaim Leib Fox Chaim Leib Fox (Fuks) (1897-1984) was born in Lodz, Poland. He developed…
…working toward inclusivity of all genders, races, ethnicities, and denominations within fandom,” explained Tamar. And knowing how vital inclusivity is, Tamar ensured that their application welcomed Jews of all affiliations,…
