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Beth Kissileff

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Meet the Jewish matchmaker-in-chief
Beth Kissileff31.12.2013
Click photo to download. Caption: The homepage of the Jewish dating website SawYouAtSinai.com. Credit: SawYouAtSinai.com.
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Sukkot: The environmental perspective
Beth Kissileff24.09.2012
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.
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A different take on bereavement
Beth Kissileff20.05.2012
Click photo to download. Caption: The book cover for "The World Without You." Credit: Courtesy Joshua Henkin.
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Writers—not rabbis— bring text to life in the “New American Haggadah”
Beth Kissileff04.03.2012
Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer is behind a newly published Haggadah, which incorporates the work of authors, not rabbis. Credit: David Shankbone.
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Loss and recovery: Stephen Greenblatt’s “The Swerve”
Beth Kissileff27.02.2012
Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve." Credit: W.W. Norton and Company.
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New Jewish-themed stories lack length, but not depth
Beth Kissileff20.02.2012
Click photo to download. Caption: Nathan Englander. Credit: Christopher Peterson.
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Of the Making of Books: Contradictions, Acts of Kindness, Beginnings of Israel
Beth Kissileff14.11.2011
Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld at the University of Pennsylvania. Credit: Kevin Walsh.
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Introducing: ‘Of the Making of Books’
Beth Kissileff05.09.2011
Israeli author Amos Oz, pictured, recently came out with "Scenes from Village Life." Credit: Mariusz Kubik.
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