April Events, March Highlights, and New Essays

Your thoughts. Our events. On Being Jewish Now.

March Highlights

Hi everyone! This month, we hit Week #16 on the USA Today Bestseller List! Thank you so much to everyone who has bought and read our book—let’s keep the momentum going! This book is a perfect Passover present for all of your guests. You can purchase On Being Jewish Now for your holiday guests using this link!

We had a ton of incredible events this month! Thank you to the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, the Westchester Women’s Symposium, the Tucson Festival of Books, the Poisoned Pen Bookstore, and the Levis JCC Sandler Center for hosting our incredible contributors and publicizing our book.

We also had our inaugural On Being Jewish Now: Live event at the Museum of Tolerance! Thank you to everyone who came and to all of our panelists—we can’t wait to bring this event across the country.

Our Substack

We’ve published more than 100 essays on our Substack so far, inspired by the bestselling anthology edited by

Zibby Owens

. We publish new essays by you every week, so make sure to subscribe and share so you don’t miss a single one! HERE are the essay guidelines if you want to submit your own.

Who Am I Now?

A Strange Email Led Me Back to Poland

Coming Home

Memories of My Mikvah

Judaism, Psychoanalysis and Resilience

Holocaust Remembrance Day Is Canceled

To read all of the essays that we have published, click HERE.

Upcoming Events

This month we are continuing our new series On Being Jewish Now: Live at the Whitby Hotel in New York on Saturday, April 5th from 10 am to 5 pm. Join us for a day of panels discussions, a book fair, a delicious lunch, and a screening of October 8 with a talk-back with director/producer Wendy Sachs. Register here.

April Events:

4/8 at 1 pm ET (virtual): JCC West Orange book club hosts Zibby Owens. Link here.

4/9 at 4 pm ET (virtual): AllianceBernstein hosts Zibby Owens, Jackie Friedland, Corie Adjmi.

4/21 at 11:30 am (New York, NY): Streicker Center hosts Jennifer Weiner and Zibby Owens. Link here.

4/28 at 7:30 am ET (virtual): Jewish Literary Festival Cape Town Conference hosts Zibby Owens and Rabbi Rebecca Keren Eisenstadt Jablonski. Link here.

4/28 at 7 pm ET (virtual): Temple Chaverim hosts Zibby Owens.

4/30 at 12 pm ET (virtual): Jewish Federation of North American National Women’s Philanthropy hosts Zibby Owens.

Thanks for being part of our story.