Bylines and Blessings: Judy Gruen's memoir about balancing career, family, and Jewish values

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People of the Book

Meryl Ain

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On People of the Book, award-winning author Meryl Ain chats with notable authors, and brings you the best in books with Jewish content. From novels to memoirs to short stories to scholarly tomes, we cover a wide range of reads. Our freewheeling conversations are thought provoking and intimate. They span historical themes, contemporary issues, the writing process, and the influences that inspire and empower writers to tell their stories and share them with the world.

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Bylines and Blessings: Judy Gruen's memoir about balancing career, family, and Jewish values

People of the Book

28 minutes 10 seconds

11 months ago

Bylines and Blessings: Judy Gruen's memoir about balancing career, family, and Jewish values

Meryl chats with Judy Gruen about her 2024 memoir, Bylines and Blessings, which chronicles her journey to pursue a career in journalism with an Orthodox lifestyle. They talk about balancing motherhood with both a career and a commitment to Jewish values. They also discuss the current wave of antisemitism and its impact on writers.

Judy is an award-winning columnist for the Jewish Journal and the author of five books, including the memoirs, Bylines and Blessings, and The Skeptic and the Rabbi. In 2024 she won First Place in Commentary in the American Jewish Press Association's Rockower Awards, and Second Place for book reviews in the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Awards.

Her work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, Christian Science Monitor, Aish.com, Jewish Action, and other media outlets. Known for her insightful and personal writing about life as a proudly observant Jewish woman in a secular society, Judy is also a book editor and writing coach. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English from UC Berkeley and her master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Jeff.

Author’s website: judygruen.com/

Substack: judygruen.substack.com/

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