Meet some of your favorite authors over a bagel and shmear with friends.

Distinguished Author Series: Zibby Owens Presents On Being Jewish Now followed by a panel discussion with contributing authors Jill Zarin, Amy Ephron, and Dara Levan

Explore an intimate and hopeful collection of meaningful essays from today’s authors and advocates reflecting on contemporary Jewish identity, and how life has changed since the attacks on October 7th. More than sixty notable Jewish authors speak to their lifetimes of Jewish joy, celebration, laughter, food, trauma, loss, love, fami-ly, neuroses, and fun, and the common threads that course through the Jewish people: resilience and humor.

All profits from the sale of the e-book, audiobook, and paperback will be donated to Artists Against Anti-semitism, a group founded by Jewish authors in the aftermath of October 7th, dedicated to fighting the spread of antisemitism.

Zibby Owens is an author and award-winning podcaster who founded Zibby Media in 2018, home to her podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books and Zibby Books. Celebrated as “New York’s Most Powerful Book-fluencer,” she contributes to Good Morning America and has published the memoir Bookends and the children's book Princess Charming. A Yale and Harvard Business School graduate, she lives in New York with her husband and four children.

Co-chairs: Nancy Sims and Rosemary Gensler