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I Read This Over Shabbos is about cultivating a community where lovers of ideas, words, and books can turn Shabbos into their weekly book club. We invite you to join this expanding book club.

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Where Marvel’s New Gods and Judaism Meet: ‘God, Man and History’

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A Call to Read More Fiction

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On Shabbos, I Get To Be a Child Again

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Why I Read on Shabbos: A Manifesto

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What Books Mean to Me

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I Read This Over Shabbos is about cultivating a community where lovers of ideas, words, and books can turn Shabbos into their weekly book club. We invite you to join this expanding book club.

ARTICLES

Essay

Where Marvel’s New Gods and Judaism Meet: ‘God, Man and History’

Marvel

Essay

A Call to Read More Fiction

Creative abstract template collage of funny funky scared falling man flying book wings fairy tale imagination inspiration clouds sky.

Essay

On Shabbos, I Get To Be a Child Again

Kelsey

Essay

Why I Read on Shabbos: A Manifesto

Copy of Pics for Kelsey

Essay

What Books Mean to Me

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WHAT WE'RE READING NOW

Grant Snider​

Akiva Aaronson​

Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger​

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Cornucopias of Thought: The Best of R. Shalom Carmy’s Writings

We chose our favorite essays from R. Carmy’s vast library of writing, for those lifelong students new and old who are looking to drink from these waters.
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My Book List From My Yeshiva Years

Despite my instinct to cringe, I am actually quite proud of this list, and by and large, these books continue to play a role in my life.
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Reading as a Spiritual Experience

Reading is not only looking at words on a page, but it is trying to comprehend our lives in the greater picture with deeper understanding.
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Risky Reading: A Summer Fiction Reading List

For this summer, we have compiled a diverse list of reading material recommended by different members of the team for your enjoyment.
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The Art of Bibliographies: Thoughts on the Liberation of Knowledge

The art of bibliographies: bringing disparate sources of knowledge together, grouping and citing them in close conversation with each other.
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Where to Go from Here: Book Recommendations

As we continue to expand our dictionary for our language of loss, 18Forty presents three books we find vital to the conversation.
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(Kodesh Press)

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Believers Respond: Reviewing ‘Strauss, Spinoza & Sinai’

There is another kind of emunah conversation taking place, though it is rarely within the pages of frum magazines, books or podcasts.
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Emanuel Feldman - Profile Photo

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Wit & Wisdom: The Best of R. Emanuel Feldman

We put together our favorite articles by R. Feldman from his time in Tradition for you, for aspiring writers and thinkers about Jewish experience alike.