Everyday Disruptions and Jewish Dilemmas: Preliminary Insights from the Pandemic Journaling Project

Notably, 12 percent of these PJP participants identify as Jewish, due likely to dissemination efforts by the University of Connecticut's Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, one of our sponsors 3 We begin by sketching the contours of the PJP itself, which was created to capture the lived realities of the coronavirus pandemic just as it began shaking the foundations of the everyday-around the world, but especially in high-rate, high-risk countries like the US In Week 1, before contributing their first journal entries, participants are asked to complete a baseline survey (using validated survey questions wherever possible), that addresses demographics, COVID-19 exposure, and self-reported physical and mental health status [ ]other analytic projects, including this essay, will examine the challenges posed by the pandemic to members of a particular demographic group (as defined by self-reported gender, age, race-ethnicity, religion, or other features or combination of features) First is a commitment to "writing it down"-to chronicling what people are experiencing now, in their own words