Women on the Move: On Being Jewish Now

What is it about being Jewish that connects us no matter where we live, how we work or if we even go to synagogue?

Food? Culture? Humor? Tradition? History?

In the wake of the October 7 tragedy in Israel — the worst pogrom since the Holocaust — and the rising antisemitism in the following months, American Jews felt a solidarity that many hadn’t known existed. People found themselves speaking out in ways they never had, putting on the Jewish stars they hadn’t worn in decades, experiencing a pride they had long forgotten.

Now, 75 writers share their funny, poignant, sad and emotional thoughts on that unique bond that reflect our joy and trauma, love, loss and family ties in the new book, On Being Jewish Now.

Twenty of those authors will join us, and we will get to hear from five of them for a conversation led by the volume’s editor, publisher and contributor Zibby Owens.