Exile & Ecstasy Book Release: At the Crossroads of Judaism, Psychedelics, & Ram Dass
Join author and journalist Madison Margolin, in conversation with journalist Noah Eckstein, for a book signing and Q&A about her new memoir, Exile & Ecstasy: Growing Up with Ram Dass and Coming of Age in the Jewish Psychedelic Underground.

Order a copy of the book now and bring it to get signed, or arrive early to buy a copy in-person before we sell out!

About Exile & Ecstasy:
Through the perspective of having grown up among “HinJews” in the community surrounding Ram Dass, author of Be Here Now, and in the cannabis legalization movement, journalist Madison Margolin takes the reader on a journey inside New York’s Jewish counterculture and the Hasidic underground, reconciling her roots, tackling ancestral Jewish trauma, and finding intersectionality between the Jewish and psychedelic experience.

Exile & Ecstasy sets out to explore the psychedelic path that occupies the crossroads between the Ram Dass movement and Hasidism. It’s a path of seeking and escape, rebellion and return, medicine and magic.

Bridging the polar ends of the Jewish and psychedelic worlds, while buttressing the experience with expert reportage, Madison prods at Be Here Now to find its relevance in the context of our roots and religious identities, and its utility in a new generation facing the trying times of today.

Tickets $10 TSL Members, $12.50 Non-members.
A reception will follow the event with refreshments served.
(Note: online ticket sales will shut off approximately 30 minutes before the event)

About Madison Margolin:
Madison Margolin is a journalist covering psychedelics and spirituality. She is the author of “Exile & Ecstasy: Growing Up with Ram Dass & Coming of Age in the Jewish Psychedelic Underground”. Also the host of the Be Here Now Network’s “Set & Setting Podcast”, as well as the co-founder of both DoubleBlind Magazine and the Jewish Psychedelic Summit, she has written for publications like Rolling Stone, Playboy, VICE, High Times, Lucid News, and Jewish publishing house and production studio Ayin Press, where she works as an editor curating psychedelic stories and interviews. With a master’s from Columbia Journalism School and a bachelor’s in rhetoric and linguistics from UC Berkeley, Madison has traveled everywhere from pot farms in the Emerald Triangle to the shores of the Ganges River and all over Israel|Palestine exploring the role of entheogens in religion, health, and conflict resolution.
Check out her website here, at madisonmargolin.com, and follow her on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn.

About Noah Eckstein:
Noah Eckstein is a Hudson–based culture journalist. He has written for publications like The New York Times, The Guardian, Variety, DoubleBlind Magazine, and The New York Daily News. He has a bachelor’s in Journalism from City, University of London, and a master’s in American History and Politics from University College London (UCL). He is the grandson of German-Jewish Holocaust survivors and has written about grief, the influence of TV and music, politics, art, affordable housing, and the future of the war on drugs. Noah’s reporting has afforded him the opportunity to travel to places like the Sacred Valley of Peru to interview ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna, and Riceville, Iowa, to speak to Civil Rights Activist Jane Elliott. He’s also spent time on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota studying how Indigenous cultures cope with mental illness.
Check out his website here, at noaheckstein.org and follow him on Twitter and Instagram.