About AmyGuth

Amy Guth is the author of Three Fallen Women, which she is perpetually schlepping around to pimp out. Between travels, she's hard at work on her next novels and is the woman with the pink-stripey hair usually starting up the horah at MOT get-togethers. Keeping true to her stick-it-to-the-man Hebrew namesake (Shifreh), she has written about feminism, sexism, tikkun olam, tzedekah, blaxploitation, social reform, media literacy and all sorts of other things for The Believer, Monkeybicycle, Bookslut, Hungry Chicago, Four Magazine, JewishFringe.com, and The Complete Meal, among others. She blogs Bigmouth indeed Strikes Again about everything, Granola Bar D'var about Jewy eco-kasher goodness, and a few other blogs here and there, has collaborated on a few shows within Second City's Training Center and is an assistant fiction editor at 42 Opus. The select few remember the days when she dabbled in improv, as well, including the night she was the "Kill Whitey" crayon. Stalk her silly at Guth-a-Go-Go.com.

This Week In Jewish Entertainment History

This Week In Jewish Entertainment History
By AmyGuth November 22, 2007

A lot happened this week in Jewish history, and many of these events have the common thread of being creative contributions by Jews. This week in 1927 the Neil Simon Theater opens and George Gershwin's "Funny Face" opens in NYC, … Read More

On The Nightstand Thursdays: A Wall of Two

On The Nightstand Thursdays: A Wall of Two
By AmyGuth November 22, 2007

I read this book mostly with welled-up eyes, and I cried hard when I finished the book. That heavy, deep cry we do sometimes when moments of the unimaginable and unchangeable are revealed to us. A Wall of Two, is … Read More

Iranian Pistachios

Iranian Pistachios
By AmyGuth November 22, 2007

About a half hour ago, my e-alerts from seven different publications delivered this into my inbox. While the subject is a serious and important one, to be sure, there is something about an e-alert with wording to the effect of … Read More

Torah Widget

Torah Widget
By AmyGuth November 20, 2007

You know Chabad has a Facebook application, yes? Rabbi Moshe Plotkin of the New Paltz, NY Chabad, who made the Facebook application, has turned to the open system being used by Google. Yep, you can add a Torah Widget to … Read More

Tzedakah We Love Monday: Universal Torah Registry

Tzedakah We Love Monday: Universal Torah Registry
By AmyGuth November 19, 2007

The Universal Torah Registry? Had I thought about this? Not really. I know I've held a Torah that was smuggled out of Germany in the 1940s. I know I've touched a Torah that was rescued from a burning building. I … Read More

Travel Deeper: The Jewish Traveler’s eToolkit

Travel Deeper: The Jewish Traveler’s eToolkit
By AmyGuth November 16, 2007

Several people I know are traveling in the next few days to be with their families for Thanksgiving, so I thought it might be nice night to make a little travel toolkit of sorts for any of youse who might … Read More

Happy Birthday, Jewcy!

Happy Birthday, Jewcy!
By AmyGuth November 16, 2007

Here's a little reading on Jewcy birthdays from RitualWell and a whole buffet of reading about birthdays from Chabad. And, enjoy these upstanding young men hoeing down and these pronounciative (not a word, but it is now) folks howling in … Read More

On The Nightstand Thursdays: Erotica Judaica

On The Nightstand Thursdays: Erotica Judaica
By AmyGuth November 15, 2007

When I stumbled across a copy of Erotica Judaica: A Sexual History of the Jews in a used bookstore, I don't think I knew what I was getting myself into. I opened the font cover and read: "Erotica Judaica, A … Read More

Jones Soda’s Chanukah Pack

Jones Soda’s Chanukah Pack
By AmyGuth November 14, 2007

Uh, just in time for the various winter holidays, Jones Soda Co. is introducing Christmas and Chanukah multi-packs of soda. The Chanukah pack boasts the four soda flavors of latke, sufganyiot, apple sauce and chocolate gelt. While I enjoy all … Read More

Further Proof of My Reverent Crush on The Bal Shem Tov

Further Proof of My Reverent Crush on The Bal Shem Tov
By AmyGuth November 14, 2007

I just read this really righteous thing tonight I wanted to share a bit of. Some of you probably already know this story and it's a bit on the long side, so I'll paraphrase. I just love reading Bal Shem … Read More