Elissa Wald

Elissa Wald is an author and ghostwriter who pivoted to full-time Jewish advocacy after the October 7 massacre. Her initiatives include the weekly Jewish newsletter Never Alone, JUDITH, a magazine of Jewish letters, arts, and culture, and MAZL, a magazine of the American Zionist left. She is also the founder and leader of the Never Alone Book Club, the biggest Jewish book club in the country with more than 4,000 members mounting a fierce fight against the ostracism of Jews from American publishing.