Secular Bible Study, for the Internet Age
29.05.15 at 14:41
David Ben-Gurion envisioned a Jewish state where the Hebrew Bible was studied as a nation’s historical heritage. Backed by key rabbinic and
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Beth Kissileff
Beth Kissileff is the editor of the anthology Reading Genesis (Continuum, 2015) and the novel Questioning Return (Mandel Vilar Press, 2016). She is a freelance journalist who has written for a variety of publications such as NYTimes.com, Huffington Post, WashingtonPost,com, Slate.com, JewishFiction.net, the Religion News Service, the Forward, Tablet, the New York Jewish Week, Moment, Hadassah, the Jewish Review of Books, the Jerusalem Report and the Jerusalem Post. She has taught Hebrew Bible, English literature, writing and Jewish studies at Carleton College, the University of Minnesota, Smith College and Mount Holyoke College and received fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, the Lilly Endowment and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition to her journalistic work, she is at work on a second anthology on Exodus, a second novel and a collection of short stories.
Articles by Beth Kissileff
Looking for the Ultimate Israeli Story
27.04.15 at 12:43
Mishy Harman built a successful Hebrew radio show modeled on This American Life. Now his unusual explorations of Israeli life are
Inside the Artistic Boycott Movement
27.02.15 at 10:51
From London to São Paulo to Pittsburgh, Israeli artists are being subjected to increasingly draconian standards that prohibit the free
This Haredi Woman Wants Your Vote
04.02.15 at 18:39
Sick of being overlooked by Ultra-Orthodox political parties, a new movement could finally bring female Haredi representation to the Knesset.
Israel Has an Amazing Literary Diaspora
29.12.14 at 18:06
Across Europe and on both American coasts, Israeli expat writers are revolutionizing Hebrew literature while—or perhaps because—they are separated from the
The Women Who Teach Women in War and Peace
30.09.14 at 13:57
A quiet revolution has taken place in women’s religious education in Israel. Rachelle Fraenkel, whose son was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists
Where Denominations Lose Their Meaning
24.04.14 at 4:41
In the pre-army academies, a new approach to Jewish learning is taking hold—one that American Jewish institutions would do well
The Afterworldly Imagination of Ofir Touché Gafla
26.01.14 at 12:17
One of Israel's most innovative new novelists has just landed on the American scene. BETH KISSILEFF talks to the man
A Chameleon in the Courtyard of the Divine
28.12.13 at 18:28
On the invisible frontiers between Israel and America, between Torah and
literary fiction, Ruchama King Feuerman found her muse. BETH
A Different Way to Lean In
26.11.13 at 16:27
The novelist, photographer, and wife of Israel's finance minister has a tough message for modern women: Don't believe in fairy