New to our column Otiyot: excerpts from YESHIVA, a poetry cycle by Mónica Gomery. 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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Join us at JCCSF on 10/22 for a literary salon event spotlighting Tom Haviv & Penina Eilberg-Schwartz in conversation about Haviv’s debut poetry collection, A Flag of No Nation. Register here: https://loom.ly/lh6-I6s Order the book here: https://loom.ly/rGpbuYs

Ayin author Stav Appel is taking The Torah in the Tarot on tour! Catch him this fall and winter on the East and West Coasts (and online). See all of Stav’s upcoming events here: https://loom.ly/EUCuLBs Order The Torah in the Tarot here: https://loom.ly/b2tuUv0

Join us at JCCSF for 2 events with Ayin author/illustrator Jessica Tamar Deutsch on Rebbe Nachman’s The Lost Princess: An Illustrated Re-Telling. 🎨 Artist Talk 10/23 → https://loom.ly/QZLj-bQ ✂️ Art workshop 10/28 → https://loom.ly/o7gLp24 📖 Order book → https://loom.ly/O4KW3BY

Have you preordered your copy of Stav Appel’s The Torah in the Tarot? We are one month away from publication day! Preorder this beautiful Tarot deck and accompanying booklet 🎭🃏: https://loom.ly/qh_Rvl4

Friends in or near NYC: Join us on Thursday, 10/9 at the Center for New Jewish Culture to celebrate the release of Daniela Naomi Molnar’s PROTOCOLS: An Erasure. Daniela will be in conversation with the poet Erika Meitner. Register: https://loom.ly/eRwVU1E

Forthcoming from Somewhere in the fall of 2026: The Whole Torah Coloring Book, an interactive set of coloring pages depicting all fifty-four Torah portions for adults and kids alike. The cover will be revealed in the coming months! Preorder here: https://loom.ly/0f8boDQ

Come find us all day on Sunday, 9/21 at booth 338 at Brooklyn Book Festival’s Literary Marketplace! The Ayin team will be tabling new Ayin books, and Ayin authors will stop by throughout the day. Check out all the festival festivities here: https://loom.ly/26q7IFw

We 're excited to share that we are searching for three new hires to join our team: a Managing Editor, a Director of Communications & Marketing, and a Director of Operations. To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and writing sample to [email protected]. https://loom.ly/FtZWQd0

Forthcoming in 2026: Who Do You Think You Are?, the English translation of Yuli Novak’s bestselling Hebrew memoir. We're honored to publish this intimate, unflinching account of what it means to confront a system of violence from within. Preorder here: https://loom.ly/n2wWYQM

Happy pub day to SURVIVA! We're honored to publish this ambitious, world-envisioning work of Indigenous futurism—the first title to be released under Ayin’s new sibling imprint, Aora Books. Congratulations, Cannupa Hanska Luger! Order here: https://loom.ly/eirfMik

Ayin Press & Hamsa Flag Project are seeking partners to support Dr. Chana Morgenstern's Literature of Co-Resistance: An Historic Collection of Arabic Writing by Palestinians & Jews via sponsorship w/ tax-deductible donations. If interested, please reach out: [email protected]

We are delighted to reveal the cover of The Garlic Eaters, Madison Safer’s children’s book about a garlic-loving, Yiddish-speaking family, slated for publication in Spring 2026. 🧄🏠🐿️ Preorder the book here: https://loom.ly/JKeUsgE

Another illustrated zine is now shipping from Ayin Press: Expanding the Field, an immersive, hands-on guide to Rosh Hashanah for anyone seeking a deeper, more personal encounter with the Jewish New Year. Order a copy here: https://loom.ly/wm6YChk

Join Jill Hammer on 8/24 at the WildHeart Center in Wallkill, New York, to celebrate the launch of her fantasy novel, The Moonstone Covenant. The event will feature a breath meditation, nature walk, an interview with Jill, & a book signing. Register: https://loom.ly/VETOiRo

In this next essay in our new folio, “A Message Embroidered in Silk,” Julia Phillips Cohen writes about Vitali Babani—the little-known founder of a once-famous French fashion house. 🎇 Read the essay here: https://loom.ly/jLq6_uY

In July, Jewish Liberation Fund’s Noa Barash, sat down with Ayin’s Tom Haviv, Penina Eilberg-Schwartz & Talia Krevsky—to explore how independent publishing can serve as a tool for social transformation & cultural activism. Listen in here 🪬: https://loom.ly/rAg5s6c

“‘Really Fun to Be Destroying This’: A Jewish Poem Draws Inspiration From an Infamous Antisemitic Screed” from Haaretz highlighted Ayin’s PROTOCOLS: An Erasure by Daniela Naomi Molnar (@deecreature). Read: https://loom.ly/MJTV_hY Order PROTOCOLS: https://loom.ly/2q3Vh1A

From our column Teiku: R’Tirzah Firestone’s essay, “From Lamentation to a New Jewish Vision,” where R’Firestone recounts how the sage R’Yochanan ben Zakkai chose to surrender to the Romans to save Judaism, changing the course of Jewish history. Read: https://loom.ly/bG-K8Xw

Now available in audio: “The Distance We Have to Travel: Snapshot of an Intergenerational Jewish Conversation after October 7th”—a heartfelt exchange of letters between Penina Eilberg-Schwartz and her mother, R’Amy Eilberg. 🕊️ 📷: Jason Francisco Listen: https://loom.ly/X8mPCjw

From our column Speaking from Experience: Madison Margolin & author/professor/rabbi Jay Michaelson (@jaymichaelson.bsky.social‬) discuss how Judaism can adapt to the new psychedelic frontier, & how altered states can enrich spiritual & religious life. Read more here: https://loom.ly/Ugsycjo

Calling all Portlanders: Join Daniela Naomi Molnar at Annie Bloom’s Books on Aug 25 for a reading from her new book, PROTOCOLS: An Erasure, in conversation with Rabbi Josh Rose, the founder of Co/Lab: Reimagine Jewish. 💥 Learn more: https://loom.ly/FSwXkw4 Order the book: https://loom.ly/nZZSHcI

On behalf of Albion-Andalus, we have the honor of distributing The Merging of Two Oceans by Pir Netanel Miles-Yépez, an innovative look at the interplay between the mystical traditions of Sufism and Hasidism from a leading practitioner-scholar. 🌊🌗🌊 Preorder the book here: https://loom.ly/9mDfJ4o

Happy publication day to PROTOCOLS: An Erasure ✏️💥 We’re honored to publish this urgent, poetic exploration of power, memory, belief, and the dangers and possibilities of language. Congratulations, Daniela Naomi Molnar! Order your copy here: https://loom.ly/2q3Vh1A

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