An intimate collection of meaningful, smart, funny, sad, emotional, and inspiring essays from today's authors and advocates about what it means to be Jewish, how things have changed since the attacks on October 7th, 2023, and the unique culture that brings this tribe together. 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, whose bat mitzvah party featured life-size MTV-style replicas of her (for which she will never forgive her mother). Never again. Sections: Introduction - You Have to Laugh - An (Unlikely?) Activist - Jewish Mom-LifeBlingAm I a Good Enough Jew? Love Stories - Jewish Pride and Joy - In Loving Memory - Happy(?) Holidays - Represent! Quiet! The Rabbi is Talking - Conclusion