This talk surveys contemporary Jewish American women’s fiction and explores a pattern wherein ritualized and ostensibly secular reading and writing practices function as lived religion. Inherited diaries, recovered manuscripts, video games, and magical, time-travel-activating texts pull characters into a sacred network with ancestors and long-ago writers. Novels extend Jewish kinship networks (personal, collective, literary, and historical) and invite readers into a shared memory project. I attend to this pattern, in part, to critically respond to continuity movements that tether Jewish survival to the female reproductive body; building on feminist critiques, I demonstrate how contemporary novelists envision alternatives through non-gestational continuities and connections rooted in feminist citation, textual inheritance, and transtemporal friendship. Sarah Schwartzman Ramsey is a doctoral candidate in English, with a graduate certificate in Jewish Studies, at the University of Colorado Boulder.