David H.—Just before Z3 launches its 2026 Conference in Palo Alto, I’m thrilled to welcome Meg Keene as the newest adjunct fellow at the Z3 Institute of Jewish Priorities.
Meg will be exploring the new Jewish cultural institutions—collectively described by Z3 Director Amitai Fraiman as a “New Borscht Belt”—and how they may foster a new Golden Age of Jewish life in America.
Meg Keene will be speaking at the Z3 Conference in Palo Alto on November 1. Click Here for Tickets
Meg Keene is the Executive Editor of Meg Keene Books, an imprint of Wicked Son distributed by Simon & Schuster, where she leads the acquisition and publication of contemporary Jewish fiction. She spent fifteen years as the founder and editor-in-chief of A Practical Wedding, growing it from a kitchen-table blog into a self-funded, seven-figure media company and the largest independently owned wedding publication in the English language. At its peak, A Practical Wedding reached more than two million readers a month and more than 13 million across platforms.
She is the bestselling author of A Practical Wedding (Hachette, 2012; revised ed. 2020) and A Practical Wedding Planner (Hachette, 2016), which together have sold more than 150,000 copies.
Her writing and commentary have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, NPR, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. In 2024, she wrote the most widely read personal essay in the Jewish press. Most recently, she served as a research partner with the ADL, contributing to its report on antisemitism in the arts.
She earned a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied at the Experimental Theatre Wing. More recently, she studied creative writing at Stanford.
She lives with her husband and two kids in Marin County, CA.
If you can’t make it in person, watch Meg online LIVE at the Z3 Conference in Palo Alto on November 1.
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We are proud to give Meg’s project an intellectual home and look forward to sharing her work as it develops.
Please join me in welcoming her to the Z3 Institute.
Tickets Available: Z3 Conference 2026
The Z3 Conference is returning to Palo Alto on November 1, 2026. I’ll be there as well as most of the writers and scholars associated with the Z3 Institute. For registration and details, click here: