On Being Jewish Now by Owens, Zibby -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction

Part One: Jewish Pride and Joy

Dara Kurtz \ I’m Proud to Be Jewish, Now More Than Ever Jeremy Garelick \ On Being Jewish Bradley Tusk \ Why Being Jewish Matters Joanna Rakoff \ The Weight of History Rachel Levy Lesser \ Proud to Be a Jewish Little Girl Heidi Shertok \ The Jewish Way Dara Levan \ We Show Up Harper Kincaid \ The Revolutionary Act of Jewish Joy Alix Strauss \ Love in the Unlikeliest of Places

Part Two: You Have to Laugh

Amy Ephron \ I Once Had a Fight with a Mohel Nicola Kraus \ My Perimenopausal Bat Mitzvah Mark Feuerstein \ Electric Jew-ga-loo! Bess Kalb \ A Short and Private Thing About Writing About Being Jewish David K. Israel \ Covenant Jane L. Rosen \ Shopping While Jewish Noa Yedlin \ About to Laugh Cara Mentzel \ Moses, Mantras, and Metaphors Jenny Mollen \ Playing Both Sides Judy Batalion \ Performance Anxiety

Part Three: I Thought We Were Friends

Jill Zarin \ Can You Believe It? Alison Hammer \ Scrolling on Shabbat Toby Rose \ On Being the Token Jewish Friend Alison Rose Greenberg and Rochelle B. Weinstein \ A Bright Light: In Conversation Ali Rosen \ We Can Do It with a Broken Heart Debbie Reed Fischer \ What Stays with Me

Part Four: An (Unlikely?) Activist

Samantha Ettus \ Double Date Aliza Licht \ Being a Jewish Activist Wasn’t on Brand for Me Lisa Barr \ Loud and Proud: The Voice in My Head Stacy Igel \ Stand Up! Elizabeth Cohen Hausman \ Using My Voice Rebecca Minkoff \ Be the Change Alyssa Rosenheck \ Rest and Responsibility Rachel Barenbaum \ What Can Happen to a Woman in Nine Months?

Part Five: Jewish Mom-Life

Lihi Lapid \ To Be an Israeli Mom Alli Frank \ Today You Are a Woman, Tomorrow You Go to Summer Camp Shirin Yadegar \ A Mother’s Fight Anna Ephron Harari \ When the Moon Broke Down Jacqueline Friedland \ The Hora, Not the Horror Amy Blumenfeld \ The Silver Lining to Singing Off-Key Ilana Kurshan \ Around the World in Forty Days of Preschool Emily Tisch Sussman \ The Twenty-Nine Nights of Hanukkah Jeanne Blasberg \ Conversion Lessons Elizabeth L. Silver \ The First Pang Keren Blankfeld \ Reading Signs

Part Six: Bling

Amy Klein \ A (Jewish) Star Is Worn Talia Carner \ Flaunting My Star of David Abby Stern \ I Refuse to Quote Coco Chanel Jamie Brenner \ Showing My Hand

Part Seven: Am I a Good Enough Jew?

Caroline Leavitt \ Good to Be Jewish, Even If I’m Not a Good Jew Brenda Janowitz \ I Do It for Them (But Mostly for Me) Samantha Greene Woodruff \ Jew-“ish” Daphne Merkin \ Passion and Pain Eleanor Reissa \ A Hider Jonathan Santlofer \ Confessions of a Reluctant Jew

Part Eight: In Loving Memory

Part Nine: Happy(?) Holidays

Part Ten: Represent!

Part Eleven: Quiet! The Rabbi is Talking

Diana Fersko \ I’m Fine Steve Leder \ To Be a Jew Today Rebecca Keren Eisenstadt Jablonski \ On the Honey Sharon Brous \ Invisible Threads of Connection

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