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Beth Kissileff

The homepage of the Jewish dating website SawYouAtSinai.com. Credit: SawYouAtSinai.com.

Meet the Jewish matchmaker-in-chief

Beth Kissileff

Dec. 31, 2013

Beth El-Kesser Israel in New Haven, Conn., has a grid-tiled photovoltaic array on its synagogue roof due to the work of Rabbi Jon-Jay Tilsen and his son, Tzvi, for Tzvi's bar mitzvah project. Credit: Beth El-Kesser Israel.

Sukkot: The environmental perspective

Beth Kissileff

Sept. 24, 2012

Click photo to download. Caption: The book cover for "The World Without You." Credit: Courtesy Joshua Henkin.

A different take on bereavement

Beth Kissileff

May 20, 2012

Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer is behind a newly published Haggadah, which incorporates the work of authors, not rabbis. Credit: David Shankbone.

Writers—not rabbis— bring text to life in the “New American Haggadah”

Beth Kissileff

March 4, 2012

Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve." Credit: W.W. Norton and Company.

Loss and recovery: Stephen Greenblatt’s “The Swerve”

Beth Kissileff

Feb. 27, 2012

Click photo to download. Caption: Nathan Englander. Credit: Christopher Peterson.

New Jewish-themed stories lack length, but not depth

Beth Kissileff

Feb. 20, 2012

Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld at the University of Pennsylvania. Credit: Kevin Walsh.

Of the Making of Books: Contradictions, Acts of Kindness, Beginnings of Israel

Beth Kissileff

Nov. 14, 2011

Israeli author Amos Oz, pictured, recently came out with "Scenes from Village Life." Credit: Mariusz Kubik.

Introducing: ‘Of the Making of Books’

Beth Kissileff

Sept. 5, 2011