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We are honored to be distributing The Thousands: A Tithe, a breathtaking invention by Anne Germanacos. What began as a simple task—to write texts of a thousand words each—results in a daring work of fragments and flashes.
Order here: https://loom.ly/jZR8sPs
Order here: https://loom.ly/jZR8sPs
The Thousands
For some time, the artist and poet Anne Germanacos set herself a simple task: to write texts of exactly one thousand words each, moving forward without looking back. Later, she returned to divide the initial twenty-five thousand words by ten, making the smaller portion into a tithe, and releasing the rest. What remains
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January 16, 2026 at 2:05 PM
We are honored to be distributing The Thousands: A Tithe, a breathtaking invention by Anne Germanacos. What began as a simple task—to write texts of a thousand words each—results in a daring work of fragments and flashes.
Order here: https://loom.ly/jZR8sPs
Order here: https://loom.ly/jZR8sPs
This month, Stav Appel will be traveling through CA and WA to discuss The Torah in the Tarot.
The schedule is as follows:
1/15 | JCC of San Francisco → https://loom.ly/UaBiNJA
1/17 | Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley
1/18 | Masa Seattle → https://loom.ly/Z6oPel8
The schedule is as follows:
1/15 | JCC of San Francisco → https://loom.ly/UaBiNJA
1/17 | Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley
1/18 | Masa Seattle → https://loom.ly/Z6oPel8
January 15, 2026 at 2:04 PM
This month, Stav Appel will be traveling through CA and WA to discuss The Torah in the Tarot.
The schedule is as follows:
1/15 | JCC of San Francisco → https://loom.ly/UaBiNJA
1/17 | Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley
1/18 | Masa Seattle → https://loom.ly/Z6oPel8
The schedule is as follows:
1/15 | JCC of San Francisco → https://loom.ly/UaBiNJA
1/17 | Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley
1/18 | Masa Seattle → https://loom.ly/Z6oPel8
We are one month away from the official release of JT Waldman’s Megillat Esther, the magisterial graphic novel of the Book of Esther—now back in an enhanced edition.
Preorder the book here: https://loom.ly/OAFBV3g
Preorder the book here: https://loom.ly/OAFBV3g
Megillat Esther: The Graphic Tale
The magisterial graphic novel of the Book of Esther, now back in an enhanced edition.
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January 9, 2026 at 5:26 PM
We are one month away from the official release of JT Waldman’s Megillat Esther, the magisterial graphic novel of the Book of Esther—now back in an enhanced edition.
Preorder the book here: https://loom.ly/OAFBV3g
Preorder the book here: https://loom.ly/OAFBV3g
We are grateful to distribute MergEmerge, a card set featuring fifty-two images and fifty-two text fragments by writer/artist Anne Germanacos. Use the deck to find and invent connections, narrating stories between any two cards or more.
Order the book of cards here: https://loom.ly/yI2vxwg
Order the book of cards here: https://loom.ly/yI2vxwg
MergEmerge: A Book of Cards
MergEmerge is a card set featuring fifty-two images and fifty-two text fragments by writer/artist Anne Germanacos. Use the deck to find and invent connections, narrating stories between any two cards or more. MergEmerge was published by Firehouse Press and is distributed by Ayin Press. About the Author Anne Germanacos
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January 8, 2026 at 2:04 PM
We are grateful to distribute MergEmerge, a card set featuring fifty-two images and fifty-two text fragments by writer/artist Anne Germanacos. Use the deck to find and invent connections, narrating stories between any two cards or more.
Order the book of cards here: https://loom.ly/yI2vxwg
Order the book of cards here: https://loom.ly/yI2vxwg
Inspired by the art and words of Lorraine Schneider in protest of the Vietnam War, this postcard by Jessica Tamar Deutsch adopts the stance that “war is not healthy for children and other living things,” which forever rings true.
Order the postcard here: https://loom.ly/cDRFQy4
Order the postcard here: https://loom.ly/cDRFQy4
January 7, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Inspired by the art and words of Lorraine Schneider in protest of the Vietnam War, this postcard by Jessica Tamar Deutsch adopts the stance that “war is not healthy for children and other living things,” which forever rings true.
Order the postcard here: https://loom.ly/cDRFQy4
Order the postcard here: https://loom.ly/cDRFQy4
New to our column Otiyot: excerpts from YESHIVA, a poetry cycle by Mónica Gomery.
Read the excerpts here: https://loom.ly/5X11CwI
Read the excerpts here: https://loom.ly/5X11CwI
Excerpts from YESHIVA
Excerpts from Mónica Gomery's YESHIVA.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
New to our column Otiyot: excerpts from YESHIVA, a poetry cycle by Mónica Gomery.
Read the excerpts here: https://loom.ly/5X11CwI
Read the excerpts here: https://loom.ly/5X11CwI
We at Aora and Ayin are absolutely thrilled to announce that SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide by Cannupa Hanska Luger has been placed on the longlist for PEN America’s 2026 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award!
Check out PEN America’s announcement here: https://loom.ly/EKqi5CY
Check out PEN America’s announcement here: https://loom.ly/EKqi5CY
Announcing the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists
PEN America is honored to announce the Longlists for the 2026 Literary Awards, which will confer nearly $350,000 to writers and translators.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We at Aora and Ayin are absolutely thrilled to announce that SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide by Cannupa Hanska Luger has been placed on the longlist for PEN America’s 2026 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award!
Check out PEN America’s announcement here: https://loom.ly/EKqi5CY
Check out PEN America’s announcement here: https://loom.ly/EKqi5CY
In our latest newsletter, Ayin Managing Editor Penina Eilberg-Schwartz reflects on the importance of considering the past, present, & future simultaneously—something we at Ayin & Aora aim to do with every project we publish.
Read Penina’s letter here: https://loom.ly/OJyTKxU
Read Penina’s letter here: https://loom.ly/OJyTKxU
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In our latest newsletter, Ayin Managing Editor Penina Eilberg-Schwartz reflects on the importance of considering the past, present, & future simultaneously—something we at Ayin & Aora aim to do with every project we publish.
Read Penina’s letter here: https://loom.ly/OJyTKxU
Read Penina’s letter here: https://loom.ly/OJyTKxU
In our latest Embers of the Ottoman Empire essay, Caroline Kahlenberg explores how Jews—like Ben-Gurion and Ben-Zvi—adopted the Ottoman fez, revealing how “dress, while seemingly superficial, is often central to one’s identity.” Read here: https://loom.ly/VNQ-cXc
The Fez among Jews in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire
Dress, while seemingly superficial, is often central to one’s identity. In modernity, as Leora Auslander has observed, “People read strangers’ use of things to determine whether they are like or unlike, with whom they are at home or not and, at times, whether they are friends or enemies.”2 Clothing serves as a “social skin” that constructs both subjects and contexts everywhere.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In our latest Embers of the Ottoman Empire essay, Caroline Kahlenberg explores how Jews—like Ben-Gurion and Ben-Zvi—adopted the Ottoman fez, revealing how “dress, while seemingly superficial, is often central to one’s identity.” Read here: https://loom.ly/VNQ-cXc
Since 2021, Ayin has developed a vibrant digital platform where essays, archives, and multimedia pieces reach readers worldwide. In 2025, we continued that work with new publications spanning ritual, art, and inquiry.
Learn more about our 2025 end-of-year campaign: loom.ly/Wc-3i4M
Learn more about our 2025 end-of-year campaign: loom.ly/Wc-3i4M
December 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Since 2021, Ayin has developed a vibrant digital platform where essays, archives, and multimedia pieces reach readers worldwide. In 2025, we continued that work with new publications spanning ritual, art, and inquiry.
Learn more about our 2025 end-of-year campaign: loom.ly/Wc-3i4M
Learn more about our 2025 end-of-year campaign: loom.ly/Wc-3i4M
Ayin is excited to be partnering the Big Jewish Gathering (@bigjewishgathering), a two-day spiritual convening in Brooklyn on Jan 24th and 25th. Come visit our table and browse Ayin books and projects.
Visit bigjewishgathering.com
Visit bigjewishgathering.com
Big Jewish Gathering: Rerooting Judaism | the-neighborhood
A two-day gathering in Brooklyn for immersive ritual, embodied learning, and spiritual community.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Ayin is excited to be partnering the Big Jewish Gathering (@bigjewishgathering), a two-day spiritual convening in Brooklyn on Jan 24th and 25th. Come visit our table and browse Ayin books and projects.
Visit bigjewishgathering.com
Visit bigjewishgathering.com
From readings and panels to residencies and festivals, 2025 was a year of gathering and growth. We hosted and cosponsored dozens of online and in-person events celebrating many recent Ayin titles.
To learn more, visit https://loom.ly/Wc-3i4M.
To learn more, visit https://loom.ly/Wc-3i4M.
December 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
From readings and panels to residencies and festivals, 2025 was a year of gathering and growth. We hosted and cosponsored dozens of online and in-person events celebrating many recent Ayin titles.
To learn more, visit https://loom.ly/Wc-3i4M.
To learn more, visit https://loom.ly/Wc-3i4M.
We are proud of the beautiful and ambitious books we published in 2025. We hope you take time to read and share these incredible works. We’re excited to release even more titles in 2026.
To become a member, visit https://loom.ly/ZapZX48.
To donate, go to https://loom.ly/ZapZX48?form=FUNCSYHNLEQ.
To become a member, visit https://loom.ly/ZapZX48.
To donate, go to https://loom.ly/ZapZX48?form=FUNCSYHNLEQ.
December 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We are proud of the beautiful and ambitious books we published in 2025. We hope you take time to read and share these incredible works. We’re excited to release even more titles in 2026.
To become a member, visit https://loom.ly/ZapZX48.
To donate, go to https://loom.ly/ZapZX48?form=FUNCSYHNLEQ.
To become a member, visit https://loom.ly/ZapZX48.
To donate, go to https://loom.ly/ZapZX48?form=FUNCSYHNLEQ.
Stav Appel’s (@torah.tarot) newly released The Torah in the Tarot features a moving foreword by the poet Ariana Reines (@arianareines). We’re excited to share that you can now read it on our digital column Otiyot.
Read: https://loom.ly/h53qdo8
Order: https://loom.ly/b2tuUv0
Read: https://loom.ly/h53qdo8
Order: https://loom.ly/b2tuUv0
Foreword: The Torah in the Tarot
The foreword to Stav Appel's The Torah in the Tarot, written by poet Ariana Reines.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Stav Appel’s (@torah.tarot) newly released The Torah in the Tarot features a moving foreword by the poet Ariana Reines (@arianareines). We’re excited to share that you can now read it on our digital column Otiyot.
Read: https://loom.ly/h53qdo8
Order: https://loom.ly/b2tuUv0
Read: https://loom.ly/h53qdo8
Order: https://loom.ly/b2tuUv0
We are thrilled to be tabling at the sixth-annual Press Play fair in Brooklyn on December 13th and December 14th. Organized by Pioneer Works, this two-day event is full of books, records, art, ephemera, and conversations.
Reserve tickets here: https://loom.ly/LD-k6fU
Reserve tickets here: https://loom.ly/LD-k6fU
Press Play 2025
Our sixth edition of Press Play, a weekend-long fair of books, records, art, ephemera, talks, and workshops, returns on December 13–14, 2025. Showcasing...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We are thrilled to be tabling at the sixth-annual Press Play fair in Brooklyn on December 13th and December 14th. Organized by Pioneer Works, this two-day event is full of books, records, art, ephemera, and conversations.
Reserve tickets here: https://loom.ly/LD-k6fU
Reserve tickets here: https://loom.ly/LD-k6fU
Our book sponsorship opportunities offer readers another key way to directly champion the creation of new works.
We invite you to join us through Ayin’s book sponsorship & program naming opportunities.
Please find our sponsorship opportunities here:
https://loom.ly/F8JKz5c
We invite you to join us through Ayin’s book sponsorship & program naming opportunities.
Please find our sponsorship opportunities here:
https://loom.ly/F8JKz5c
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Our book sponsorship opportunities offer readers another key way to directly champion the creation of new works.
We invite you to join us through Ayin’s book sponsorship & program naming opportunities.
Please find our sponsorship opportunities here:
https://loom.ly/F8JKz5c
We invite you to join us through Ayin’s book sponsorship & program naming opportunities.
Please find our sponsorship opportunities here:
https://loom.ly/F8JKz5c
As 2025 draws to a close, we wanted to thank our readers, members, beloved supporters, and visionary authors, partners, and collaborators—as well as our dedicated staff and board. Everything we do is possible because of all of you. We thank you all for another extraordinary year.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
As 2025 draws to a close, we wanted to thank our readers, members, beloved supporters, and visionary authors, partners, and collaborators—as well as our dedicated staff and board. Everything we do is possible because of all of you. We thank you all for another extraordinary year.
In the next essay from our Embers of the Ottoman Empire folio, “Stamps and Ink,” Liora R. Halperin recalls finding a curious collection of stamps—as well as tensions between Jewish groups during the British Mandate in Palestine.
https://loom.ly/FqLTvNM
https://loom.ly/FqLTvNM
Stamps and Ink: Post-Ottoman Memory in a Jerusalem Archive
Somehow, the stamps concretized an important record of their story. They showed how these people navigated the transition to British political and Zionist communal rule with an ambivalent mix of national pride, grievances about neglect, and questions about whether and how to contribute to the Zionist project in ways that honored the legacies of their families.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In the next essay from our Embers of the Ottoman Empire folio, “Stamps and Ink,” Liora R. Halperin recalls finding a curious collection of stamps—as well as tensions between Jewish groups during the British Mandate in Palestine.
https://loom.ly/FqLTvNM
https://loom.ly/FqLTvNM
Forthcoming from Ayin in 2027: Madison Margolin’s Judaism Is Psychedelic, an essential guide to navigating psychedelic experience through a Jewish lens. Full book description to come.
Preorder the book now: https://loom.ly/Ne6KAdE
Preorder the book now: https://loom.ly/Ne6KAdE
Judaism Is Psychedelic: A Practical Guide
Judaism Is Psychedelic is an essential guide to navigating psychedelic experience through a Jewish lens.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Forthcoming from Ayin in 2027: Madison Margolin’s Judaism Is Psychedelic, an essential guide to navigating psychedelic experience through a Jewish lens. Full book description to come.
Preorder the book now: https://loom.ly/Ne6KAdE
Preorder the book now: https://loom.ly/Ne6KAdE
Now available for preorder: Turn It & Turn It: Post-Secular Essays and Poems, an electric collection of essays and poems by America’s most prominent feminist Jewish poet and critic, Alicia Ostriker.
Forthcoming from Ayin 7/28/2026. Preorder: https://loom.ly/y_Y2uhE.
Forthcoming from Ayin 7/28/2026. Preorder: https://loom.ly/y_Y2uhE.
Turn It & Turn It: Post-Secular Essays and Poems (Preorder)
*PREORDER*Publication date: August 4th, 2026An electric collection of essays and poems by America’s most prominent feminist Jewish poet and critic.What does a post-secular poetics look like? How might feminist midrash, irreverent play, and renewed engagement with spiritual lineages reshape the way we read? In this bold
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November 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Now available for preorder: Turn It & Turn It: Post-Secular Essays and Poems, an electric collection of essays and poems by America’s most prominent feminist Jewish poet and critic, Alicia Ostriker.
Forthcoming from Ayin 7/28/2026. Preorder: https://loom.ly/y_Y2uhE.
Forthcoming from Ayin 7/28/2026. Preorder: https://loom.ly/y_Y2uhE.
How do you research a community whose borders kept shifting? In our next Embers of the Ottoman Empire essay, Jacob Daniels confronts that question while tracing the Jews of Edirne—and the trap of projecting modern borders onto the past.
Read “Boxing and Unboxing an Empire”: https://loom.ly/W0H5k8g
Read “Boxing and Unboxing an Empire”: https://loom.ly/W0H5k8g
Embers of the Ottoman Empire
This folio offers eleven glimpses into the life, material culture, and thought of Jews living amid the dissolution and echoes of the Ottoman Empire.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
How do you research a community whose borders kept shifting? In our next Embers of the Ottoman Empire essay, Jacob Daniels confronts that question while tracing the Jews of Edirne—and the trap of projecting modern borders onto the past.
Read “Boxing and Unboxing an Empire”: https://loom.ly/W0H5k8g
Read “Boxing and Unboxing an Empire”: https://loom.ly/W0H5k8g
Happy pub day to The Torah in the Tarot, a beautiful Tarot deck and booklet revealing the lost and forgotten Jewish origins of the Tarot. 🃏🎭 Congratulations, Stav Appel!
Order here: https://loom: https://loom.ly/shClqOg
Order here: https://loom: https://loom.ly/shClqOg
The Torah in the Tarot Deck + Booklet (Preorder)
*PREORDER*Publication date: October 28th, 2025 A beautiful Tarot deck and booklet revealing the lost and forgotten Jewish origins of the Tarot—featuring a foreword by poet Ariana Reines.For hundreds of years, the original meaning of the Tarot de Marseille, the artistic ancestor of the contemporary Tarot, has been a sou
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October 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Happy pub day to The Torah in the Tarot, a beautiful Tarot deck and booklet revealing the lost and forgotten Jewish origins of the Tarot. 🃏🎭 Congratulations, Stav Appel!
Order here: https://loom: https://loom.ly/shClqOg
Order here: https://loom: https://loom.ly/shClqOg
Now available for preorder: The Illuminated Path of Teshuvah: Ancient Jewish Wisdom on Repairing Harm by Ari Lev Fornari—a bold roadmap for healing, accountability, and liberation rooted in Jewish wisdom and justice.
Preorder here → https://loom.ly/qP15DOc
Preorder here → https://loom.ly/qP15DOc
The Illuminated Path of Teshuvah: Ancient Jewish Wisdom on Repairing H
*PREORDER*Estimated publication date: Late 2026Exact publication date forthcomingAncient wisdom meets radical justice in this powerful reimagining of the Jewish path of teshuvah.The Illuminated Path of Teshuvah is a bold spiritual and ethical roadmap for personal and collective transformation. Rooted in ancient Jewish
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October 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Now available for preorder: The Illuminated Path of Teshuvah: Ancient Jewish Wisdom on Repairing Harm by Ari Lev Fornari—a bold roadmap for healing, accountability, and liberation rooted in Jewish wisdom and justice.
Preorder here → https://loom.ly/qP15DOc
Preorder here → https://loom.ly/qP15DOc
The great Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, best known for his creative contributions to Hasidism, died on this day in 1810. In his honor, we’re revisiting Jessica Tamar Deutsch’s The Lost Princess, a poetic retelling of Rebbe Nachman’s classic tale. https://loom.ly/IXNl6WQ
The Lost Princess
When a powerful King banishes his beloved daughter, the entire kingdom is turned upside down. Sensing the King’s deep regret, the Viceroy of the kingdom takes it upon himself to search for the Lost Princess, and reunite the royal family. The ensuing quest takes many mysterious twists and turns, revealing the infinite—a
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October 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The great Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, best known for his creative contributions to Hasidism, died on this day in 1810. In his honor, we’re revisiting Jessica Tamar Deutsch’s The Lost Princess, a poetic retelling of Rebbe Nachman’s classic tale. https://loom.ly/IXNl6WQ
New to our column Otiyot: in this excerpted section of A Flag of No Nation, “Allegiance,” Tom Haviv poetically describes his grandfather’s 1946 immigration from Istanbul to Palestine—and the many forces prompt such a pilgrimage.
Read here: https://loom.ly/GJQNHCU
Read here: https://loom.ly/GJQNHCU
Allegiance: Excerpts from A Flag of No Nation
An excerpt from A Flag of No Nation by Tom Haviv
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October 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
New to our column Otiyot: in this excerpted section of A Flag of No Nation, “Allegiance,” Tom Haviv poetically describes his grandfather’s 1946 immigration from Istanbul to Palestine—and the many forces prompt such a pilgrimage.
Read here: https://loom.ly/GJQNHCU
Read here: https://loom.ly/GJQNHCU