September 13, 2024, 8:00 pm
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This event follows our Community Shabbat Dinner and Rhythm & Ruach service.
Editor Zibby Owens along with a few of the contributors to “On Being Jewish Now” join us to discuss their work.
On October 7th, 2023, Jews in Israel were attacked in the largest pogrom since the Holocaust. But Jews everywhere felt it and came together to process and to speak out in ways they never had before, like the contributors to this collection. More than sixty notable Jewish authors speak to their lifetimes of Jewish joy, celebration, laughter, food, trauma, loss, love, family, neuroses, and fun, and the common threads that course through the Jewish people: resilience and humor. Contributors include Mark Feuerstein, Jill Zarin, Rabbi Steve Leder, Amy Ephron, Lisa Barr, Rebecca Minkoff, Annabelle Gurwitch, Jenny Mollen, Nicola Kraus, Caroline Leavitt, and many more. On Being Jewish Now is edited by bestselling author, podcaster, bookstore owner, and media company CEO Zibby Owens.
Never again.
All profits from the sale of the e-book, audiobook, and paperback will be donated to Artists Against Antisemitism, a group founded by Jewish authors in the aftermath of October 7th, dedicated to fighting the spread of antisemitism.
Books will be available for preorder at the event and are for sale here: https://zibbymedia.com/products/on-being-jewish-now
Zibby will be joined by contributors Alix Strauss, Rabbi Rebecca Keren Jablonski, and Barri Leiner Grant
Alix Strauss is a trend, culture, and lifestyle journalist; an award-winning, four-time published author; a speaker; and a frequent contributor to The New York Times. She has been a featured lifestyle, travel, and trend writer on national morning and talk shows, including on ABC, CBS, CNN, and the Today show. Her books include The Joy of Funerals, Based Upon Availability, and Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous & the Notorious. She is also the editor of Have I Got a Guy for You, an anthology of mother-coordinated dating horror stories. Her work has been optioned for several TV and film projects. The Joy of Funerals is in early development with A24 for series adaptation. Alix lectures extensively and has been a keynote speaker, moderator, or panelist at more than two hundred conferences, symposiums, seminars, and summits. She lives in New York.
Barri Leiner Grant is a well-respected grief specialist, author, founder, and Chief Grief Officer® of The Memory Circle: for those learning to live with loss. As coach, educator, and advocate, she holds transformative gatherings and workshops to explore grief tending tools and techniques that foster community, hope, and healing. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Psychology Today, and Maria Shriver’s The Sunday Paper, among others. Her mother, Ellen, died suddenly in 1993. Her dad, Neil, lives with dementia. She honors them in this work. She lives with her two children, Emma and Quinn; her husband, Alex; and their pup, Bean, in New York.
Rebecca Keren Eisenstadt Jablonski is a rabbi, author, and private educator. She obtained semicha from Mesifta Adas Wolkowisk in New York and graduated with honors from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has spent more than fif- teen years as an on-demand Jewish life concierge. Rebecca’s debut memoir, Confessions of a Female Rabbi: Relevant Religion in an On-Demand World, was published in August 2024. She works with various synagogues and families all over the world and officiates weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, funerals, baby namings, bespoke holiday gatherings, and other Jewish life cycle events. She serves on the board of Building Together: Building Relationships Between Palestinians and Israelis, and is involved in many other charities. She resides in New York City with her husband, Ben, and their Shih-Poo, Scout.
