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On Being Jewish Now

Reflections from Authors and Advocates

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A USA Today Bestseller
Featured in the Washington Post

"Zibby Owens has done the literary world a great service, collecting important views at a critical moment in history. As she says, this is not a time to lower your voice. Kudos to her and all the authors here for sharing valuable insight, emotion, and perspective on the often misunderstood Jewish experience."
—Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays With Morrie


An intimate and hopeful collection of meaningful, smart, funny, sad, emotional, and inspiring essays from today's authors and advocates about what it means to be Jewish, how life has changed since the attacks on October 7th, 2023, and the unique culture that brings this group together.

On October 7th, 2023, Jews in Israel were attacked in the largest pogrom since the Holocaust. It was a day felt by Jews everywhere who came together to process and speak out in ways some never had before. In this collection, 75 contributors speak to Jewish joy, celebration, laughter, food, trauma, loss, love, and family, and the common threads that course through the Jewish people: resilience and humor. Contributors include Mark Feuerstein, Jill Zarin, Steve Leder, Joanna Rakoff, Amy Ephron, Lisa Barr, Annabelle Gurwitch, Daphne Merkin, Bradley Tusk, Sharon Brous, Jenny Mollen, Nicola Kraus, Caroline Leavitt, and many others. On Being Jewish Now is edited by Zibby Owens, bestselling author, podcaster, bookstore owner, and CEO of Zibby Media.

All profits will be donated to Artists Against Antisemitism. 

Contributors:
Abby Stern
Ali Rosen
Alison Hammer
Alison Rose Greenberg
Alix Strauss
Aliza Licht
Alli Frank
Alyssa Rosenheck
Amy Blumenfeld
Amy Ephron
Amy Klein
Anna Ephron Harari
Annabelle Gurwitch
Barri Leiner Grant
Bess Kalb
Beth Ricanati
Bradley Tusk
Brenda Janowitz
Cara Mentzel
Caroline Leavitt
Corie Adjmi
Courtney Sheinmel
Danny Grossman
Daphne Merkin
Dara Kurtz
Dara Levan
David K. Israel
David Christopher Kaufman
Debbie Reed Fischer
Diana Fersko
Eleanor Reissa
Elizabeth Cohen Hausman
Elizabeth L. Silver
Elyssa Friedland
Emily Tisch Sussman
Harper Kincaid
Heidi Shertok
Ilana Kurshan
Jacqueline Friedland
Jamie Brenner
Jane L. Rosen
Jeanne Blasberg
Jennifer S. Brown
Jenny Mollen
Jeremy Garelick
Jill Zarin
Joanna Rakoff
Jonathan Santlofer
Judy Batalion
Julia DeVillers
Keren Blankfeld
Lihi Lapid
Lisa Barr
Lisa Kogan
Lynda Cohen Loigman
Mark Feuerstein
Nicola Kraus
Noa Yedlin
Rebecca Keren Jablonski
Rachel Barenbaum
Rachel Levy Lesser
Rachelle Unreich
Rebecca Minkoff
Rebecca Raphael
Renee Rosen
Rochelle B. Weinstein
Samantha Ettus
Samantha Greene Woodruff
Sharon Brous
Shirin Yadegar
Stacy Igel
Steve Leder
Talia Carner
Toby Rose
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 30, 2024
      Owens (Blank), founder of Zibby Books and cofounder of Artists Against Antisemitism, gathers more than 70 thought-provoking essays from Jewish writers, actors, artists, and religious leaders about the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel. Author Judy Batalion recalls her anxiety about giving a college lecture on the Holocaust soon after the massacre, fearing the surge in antisemitism would yield a hostile response. Elsewhere, novelist Jacqueline Friedland reflects on how her family came to the decision to celebrate her daughter’s bat mitzvah several weeks after the attack so as not to “let evildoers rob us of even more than they already had.” New York Post editor David Christopher Kaufman, a Black man accustomed to being the “darkest Jew in the room,” argues that the Jewish community should accept the permanent dissolution of alliances with progressive groups who were unsympathetic to Jewish interests in the wake of the attack, and instead prioritize uplifting Black, queer, and Latino Jews and diversifying Ashkenazi-dominated institutions. Despite the heavy subject matter, the volume ends on a hopeful note, with rabbi Sharon Brous recalling a family trip to Vietnam amid a climate of escalating antisemitism during which she formed an unexpected minyan with another Jewish family. It’s a revealing look at the wide range of responses to a sad chapter in Jewish history.

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