Virtual Challah Baking Class!
Virtual Challah Baking Class to Celebrate the Launch of ON BEING JEWISH NOW!
Zibby's Bookshop is thrilled to celebrate the launch of ON BEING JEWISH NOW with a virtual challah baking class taught by Zibby Owens, Whitney Wright, Rabbi Vanessa Harper, Brenda Janowitz, and Beth Ricanati! Recipe and ingredients list to come!
About the book:
An intimate and hopeful collection of meaningful, smart, funny, sad, emotional, and inspiring essays from today’s authors and advocates about what it means to be Jewish, how life has changed since the attacks on October 7th, 2023, and the unique culture that brings this group together.
On October 7th, 2023, Jews in Israel were attacked in the largest pogrom since the Holocaust. It was a day felt by Jews everywhere who came together to process and speak out in ways some never had before. In this collection, 75 contributors speak to Jewish joy, celebration, laughter, food, trauma, loss, love, and family, and the common threads that course through the Jewish people: resilience and humor. Contributors include Mark Feuerstein, Jill Zarin, Steve Leder, Joanna Rakoff, Amy Ephron, Lisa Barr, Annabelle Gurwitch, Daphne Merkin, Bradley Tusk, Sharon Brous, Jenny Mollen, Nicola Kraus, Caroline Leavitt, and many others. On Being Jewish Now is edited by Zibby Owens, bestselling author, podcaster, bookstore owner, and CEO of Zibby Media.
About the hosts:
Zibby Owens is the bestselling author of Blank: A Novel, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, Princess Charming, and the forthcoming novel Overheard. She is the editor of two anthologies: Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology and Moms Don’t Have Time To Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology. She has contributed regularly to GMA and Katie Couric Media and has written for Vogue, Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, and other outlets. Zibby is the founder and CEO of Zibby Media, which includes the Zibby Books boutique publishing house, Zibby’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, CA, the award-winning daily podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, which she hosts, Zibby’s Book Club, and Zibby Retreats for book lovers. A frequent event moderator, speaker, media personality, and podcast guest, Zibby has been featured on many international and local news outlets, including Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, the BBC, the Jerusalem Post, La Nación, the Hindustan Times, USA Today, the New York Post, and the Los Angeles Times, which coined the term “the Zibby-verse.” Vulture dubbed her “NYC’s Top Book-fluencer,” and her podcast was repeatedly one of Oprah’s top literary podcasts. Zibby lives in New York (and sometimes L.A.) with her husband, Kyle Owens of Morning Moon Productions, and her four children, ages 9 to 17. She was a stay-at-home mom until she launched her podcast in 2018, starting her next chapter. Follow her on Instagram @zibbyowens and Substack, where her blog is a bestseller.
Whitney Wright was formerly the Food Editor of Southern Living and worked for Thomas Keller as a Chef de Partie at Per Se restaurant in New York City. She has appeared on the Food Network and her recipes have been published in the New York Times and Food52. Whitney is currently the Head of Communications and Partnerships at Une Femme Wines, a San Francisco-based startup on a mission to channel and amplify the power of women to create a more equitable wine industry and world. She also works as an independent consultant and provides C-suite executives and communications teams with strategic branding and messaging, public relations, media training, and crisis management support. Her clients span a range of industries and stages from startups to Fortune 500 to nonprofits. Whitney earned degrees in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University, a graduate degree in Journalism from New York University, and a Culinary Arts degree from L’Academie de Cuisine. She was born in Chicago and lived in New York City and Washington DC before moving to Birmingham in 2012 to work for Time, Inc. Whitney serves on the Board of Trustees at the McWane Science Center and as a Girl Scout Troop Leader to her daughter Vivian’s Troop. Whitney loves to cook and bake, travel, play golf, dance at weddings, and read. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner, Jared, her 10-year old daughter, Vivian, and their dog, Cricket.
Rabbi Vanessa Harper is the author of Loaves of Torah: Exploring the Jewish Year through Challah, published in 2023 by the CCAR Press; the book is based upon her long-time Instagram-based education project @lechlechallah, which uses challah as an artistic medium for interpreting and teaching Torah and the Jewish calendar. Rabbi Harper currently serves as Senior Director of Adult Jewish Living at Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley, MA. She was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 2021, and during her training for the rabbinate was recognized as a Wexner Graduate Fellow/Davidson Scholar, a UJA-Federation Graduate Scholar, a Be Wise Jewish Entrepreneurial Fellow, and as one of the New York Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36.” She has served as a Jewish educator for preschoolers through adults in various capacities over the last fifteen years, and is passionate about facilitating creative, joyful, and meaningful Jewish learning and living for people of all ages.
Brenda Janowitz is the author of eight novels, including The Grace Kelly Dress, which has been optioned for film by Hallmark/ Crown Media, and The Audrey Hepburn Estate, which was chosen as the Reader’s Choice by the CBS New York Book Club with Mary Calvi. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Real Simple, The Sunday Times (UK), Salon, Redbook, USA Today, Bustle, The Forward, the New York Post, Publisher’s Weekly, Hello Giggles, Writer’s Digest Magazine, WritersDigest.com, and xojane. She is the former Books Correspondent for PopSugar.
Dr. Beth Ricanati is the author of Braided: A Journey of a Thousand Challahs, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, among other awards. She is also a board-certified internist who has worked at the New York-Presbyterian/ Columbia Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic, and now sees patients at the Venice Family Clinic in Los Angeles, one of the largest clinics in the country for the underserved.
Virtual Challah Baking Class to Celebrate the Launch of ON BEING JEWISH NOW!
Zibby's Bookshop is thrilled to celebrate the launch of ON BEING JEWISH NOW with a virtual challah baking class taught by Zibby Owens, Whitney Wright, Rabbi Vanessa Harper, Brenda Janowitz, and Beth Ricanati! Recipe and ingredients list to come!
About the book:
An intimate and hopeful collection of meaningful, smart, funny, sad, emotional, and inspiring essays from today’s authors and advocates about what it means to be Jewish, how life has changed since the attacks on October 7th, 2023, and the unique culture that brings this group together.
On October 7th, 2023, Jews in Israel were attacked in the largest pogrom since the Holocaust. It was a day felt by Jews everywhere who came together to process and speak out in ways some never had before. In this collection, 75 contributors speak to Jewish joy, celebration, laughter, food, trauma, loss, love, and family, and the common threads that course through the Jewish people: resilience and humor. Contributors include Mark Feuerstein, Jill Zarin, Steve Leder, Joanna Rakoff, Amy Ephron, Lisa Barr, Annabelle Gurwitch, Daphne Merkin, Bradley Tusk, Sharon Brous, Jenny Mollen, Nicola Kraus, Caroline Leavitt, and many others. On Being Jewish Now is edited by Zibby Owens, bestselling author, podcaster, bookstore owner, and CEO of Zibby Media.
About the hosts:
Zibby Owens is the bestselling author of Blank: A Novel, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, Princess Charming, and the forthcoming novel Overheard. She is the editor of two anthologies: Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology and Moms Don’t Have Time To Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology. She has contributed regularly to GMA and Katie Couric Media and has written for Vogue, Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, and other outlets. Zibby is the founder and CEO of Zibby Media, which includes the Zibby Books boutique publishing house, Zibby’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, CA, the award-winning daily podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, which she hosts, Zibby’s Book Club, and Zibby Retreats for book lovers. A frequent event moderator, speaker, media personality, and podcast guest, Zibby has been featured on many international and local news outlets, including Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, the BBC, the Jerusalem Post, La Nación, the Hindustan Times, USA Today, the New York Post, and the Los Angeles Times, which coined the term “the Zibby-verse.” Vulture dubbed her “NYC’s Top Book-fluencer,” and her podcast was repeatedly one of Oprah’s top literary podcasts. Zibby lives in New York (and sometimes L.A.) with her husband, Kyle Owens of Morning Moon Productions, and her four children, ages 9 to 17. She was a stay-at-home mom until she launched her podcast in 2018, starting her next chapter. Follow her on Instagram @zibbyowens and Substack, where her blog is a bestseller.
Whitney Wright was formerly the Food Editor of Southern Living and worked for Thomas Keller as a Chef de Partie at Per Se restaurant in New York City. She has appeared on the Food Network and her recipes have been published in the New York Times and Food52. Whitney is currently the Head of Communications and Partnerships at Une Femme Wines, a San Francisco-based startup on a mission to channel and amplify the power of women to create a more equitable wine industry and world. She also works as an independent consultant and provides C-suite executives and communications teams with strategic branding and messaging, public relations, media training, and crisis management support. Her clients span a range of industries and stages from startups to Fortune 500 to nonprofits. Whitney earned degrees in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University, a graduate degree in Journalism from New York University, and a Culinary Arts degree from L’Academie de Cuisine. She was born in Chicago and lived in New York City and Washington DC before moving to Birmingham in 2012 to work for Time, Inc. Whitney serves on the Board of Trustees at the McWane Science Center and as a Girl Scout Troop Leader to her daughter Vivian’s Troop. Whitney loves to cook and bake, travel, play golf, dance at weddings, and read. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner, Jared, her 10-year old daughter, Vivian, and their dog, Cricket.
Rabbi Vanessa Harper is the author of Loaves of Torah: Exploring the Jewish Year through Challah, published in 2023 by the CCAR Press; the book is based upon her long-time Instagram-based education project @lechlechallah, which uses challah as an artistic medium for interpreting and teaching Torah and the Jewish calendar. Rabbi Harper currently serves as Senior Director of Adult Jewish Living at Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley, MA. She was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 2021, and during her training for the rabbinate was recognized as a Wexner Graduate Fellow/Davidson Scholar, a UJA-Federation Graduate Scholar, a Be Wise Jewish Entrepreneurial Fellow, and as one of the New York Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36.” She has served as a Jewish educator for preschoolers through adults in various capacities over the last fifteen years, and is passionate about facilitating creative, joyful, and meaningful Jewish learning and living for people of all ages.
Brenda Janowitz is the author of eight novels, including The Grace Kelly Dress, which has been optioned for film by Hallmark/ Crown Media, and The Audrey Hepburn Estate, which was chosen as the Reader’s Choice by the CBS New York Book Club with Mary Calvi. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Real Simple, The Sunday Times (UK), Salon, Redbook, USA Today, Bustle, The Forward, the New York Post, Publisher’s Weekly, Hello Giggles, Writer’s Digest Magazine, WritersDigest.com, and xojane. She is the former Books Correspondent for PopSugar.
Dr. Beth Ricanati is the author of Braided: A Journey of a Thousand Challahs, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, among other awards. She is also a board-certified internist who has worked at the New York-Presbyterian/ Columbia Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic, and now sees patients at the Venice Family Clinic in Los Angeles, one of the largest clinics in the country for the underserved.