The meeting was about to start, and we anxiously watched as the waiting room filled up. We had decided, a few months earlier, to launch a monthly Jewish book club over Zoom, which our Instagram followers helped us name “Matzah Book Soup.” Now it was April 2021, and we were set to discuss our first book: “Zoe Rosenthal is Not Lawful Good” by Nancy Werlin. The idea for Matzah Book Soup came out of conversations we had been having for some time about the issues facing Jewish readers today. As two Jewish women with active bookstagram accounts (@litbylilli and @its.amandas.bookshelf),...