Benji L. Zoller

I Read This Over Shabbos is a weekly newsletter from Rivka Bennun Kay about Jewish book culture, book recommendations, and modern ideas. Receive this free newsletter every week in your inbox by subscribing here. Questions, comments, or feedback? Email Rivka at Shabbosreads@18forty.org. Moving to Israel meant leaving behind a particular Sunday ritual—getting lost in the Strand, exploring the small bookstores around Manhattan, living in a city full of English books.

I Read This Over Shabbos is a weekly newsletter from Rivka Bennun Kay about Jewish book culture, book recommendations, and modern ideas. Receive this free newsletter every week in your inbox by subscribing here. Questions, comments, or feedback? Email Rivka at Shabbosreads@18forty.org. This piece first ran on our Substack, I Read This Over Shabbos. We’re pleased to share it here on our website. I’m terrible at remembering what I read.

I Read This Over Shabbos is a weekly newsletter from Rivka Bennun Kay about Jewish book culture, book recommendations, and modern ideas. Receive this free newsletter every week in your inbox by subscribing here. Questions, comments, or feedback? Email Rivka at Shabbosreads@18forty.org. In 2025, we had numerous conversations with exceptional people. We spoke about faith and loss, outreach and divergence, mysticism and teshuva—and even the emerging role of AI.