JEW IN THE PEW is a memoir of a very straightforward and funny Jewish woman who is married to a non-Jew and attends church. The book spans a calendar year as she observes all the holidays (Jewish and Christian) while trying to raising her kids with a Jewish identify, showing what goes on in the Jewish mind while sitting in church and navigating family dynamics. Is if that weren’t hard enough, echoes of the past loom large and she isn’t quite sure what the future should look like. Not to mention the struggle of making the elusive perfect challah, as if that would fix her identity crisis. In case you think otherwise, it’s just not that easy to plug the Christmas tree lights in with one hand while lighting the Menorah with the other. In fact, it’s kinda a fire hazard.