Recent Writings By Esther
April 2008
“2008: Year of the Matchmaker?” NY Jewish Week (singles)
“Status Symbol,” (reprinted in Jewish Journal)
March 2008
“The Panic Years and the Singles Crisis,” NY Jewish Week (singles)
“Looking Out for #2,” NY Jewish Week (singles)
February 2008
“Oddly Enough: Jewish Singles Edition,” NY Jewish Week (singles)
“Don’t Worry, Be Single Happy,” NY Jewish Week (singles)
“What is Chivalry?” LA Jewish Journal (singles–reprinted from the NY Jewish Week)
“Chivalry Is…What?” ChivalryToday.com (reprinted from the NY Jewish Week)
December 2007
“Looking for the Perfect…Shul,” NY Jewish Week (singles)
September 2007
NEW!!
“Off the Record,” NY Jewish Week (singles)
“The Greener Apple,” American Jewish Life Magazine
“HotNosh 24/6,” American Jewish Life Magazine
“Koolanoo.com: Hot Jewish MySpace,” American Jewish Life Magazine
August 2007
“Courtship, Community, Connection and Chemistry,” NY Jewish Week (singles)
“The Readers Sound Off: Q&A Session,” NY Jewish Week (singles)
“Honest-Tees: Slogan of Ourselves?“, NY Jewish Week (singles)
“Top 5 TV Shows I Love and Hate,” Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter
“Californication: Sex vs. Family Life,” Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter
July 2007
Information Nation: Expanding Education’s Frontier to Find “Generation Tech”, CAJE Jewish Education News (PDF available–follow the link and scroll to the end)
“A Hand in Zionism 2.0” NY Jewish Week (singles)
“Redefining ‘Jews by Choice’,” JTA
-Also appeared in the St. Louis Jewish Light, 7/25/07
-Also appeared in the Arizona Jewish News, 7/27/07
“Holy Comedy,” The Forward
“Find His Wife, Please,” NY Jewish Week (singles)
June 2007
“Munich’d Up” (JTA)
“Finding a Second Life” NY Jewish Week (singles)
“Make Babies, Not Contributions” NY Jewish Week (singles)
May 2007
“A Price Above Rubies (and Botox)” NY Jewish Week (singles)
“Covering Your Bases,” NY Jewish Week (singles)
The Seder and the Black Swan,” NY Jewish Week (singles)
April 2007
“Movin’ On Up: An Upper West Side Story,” World Jewish Digest (Real Estate section, April 2007)
“From MySpace to YourAmazingSpace,” NY Jewish Week (singles)
March 2007
“Plus-One, or Plus-None?” NY Jewish Week (singles)
“Dating is Like…,” NY Jewish Week (singles)
“Making Matches in the Holy City,” NY Jewish Week (singles)
“West Bank Story: Love, Politics and Hummus,” Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter Blog
February 2007
“Putting the Cross in Crossover,” Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog
“Forget the Tomb: Find Your Own Personal Jesus,” Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog
“Syndicating Purim,” The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
“Top Ten Must-Haves For a Jewish Wedding,” Bride & Bloom Magazine
“A Long Road to Changing the World,” NY Jewish Week
“Checkbox Commitment,” NY Jewish Week (singles)
“Has ‘Lost’ Lost It?,” Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog
January 2007
“Is Britney Putting the Jew In Jewelry?”, Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog
“Single Jewish Mom Seeking,” NY Jewish Week (singles)
“Letters From the Queen: Sunshine Departed from Babel,” Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog
“Working Within the System,” NY Jewish Week (singles)
December 2006
A Singular Space, NY Jewish Week Directions Guide 12/06
Banging Out Culture and Community, NY Jewish Week (singles)
Dating 2.0 (NY Jewish Week singles)
Bush’s So-Called Elementary School Life (Idol Chatter)
The Painted Veil: Class and Romance in the Time of Cholera (Idol Chatter)
“Beyond Sandler’s ‘Chanukah Song‘” (Jewish Week-Short Takes)
November 2006
“Two Rabbis on the Radio” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“Kula Uncovers Hidden Wisdom in New TV Series” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“Friends in High Places” (Jewish Week-Singles)
“Saved” (American Jewish Life Magazine)
NEW!! “‘The Ten Commandments’: The Abtastic Val Kilmer Musical!” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“Who Your Friends Are” (Jewish Week-Singles)
“Finding the Jewish Future” (Jewish Week-opinion)
“Borat: Where Do I Begin?” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“‘Jewface’ and the Search for Jewish Connection” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“A Yeshiva Girl’s First Halloween” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“High School Revisited” (Jewish Week-First Person Singular)
“Is that Anti-Semitic Kazakh Journalist Speaking Hebrew?” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
More Esther articles after the jump…
COMING SOON: “Marching Toward Revelation” (Jewish Week-First Person Singular)
“Esther on Esther: ‘One Night With the King‘” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“Recommitment Ceremony” (Jewish Week-First Person Singular)
“Everyone Loves a Jewish Boy (Or Do They?)” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“TV’s Medical Dramas Go Jewish” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“Karma Returns to Thursday Nights” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“Girls’ Night On to Go” (Short Takes, Jewish Week)
“Hailing a Date” (Jewish Week-First Person Singular)
“John Zorn’s Genius Grant” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“Spirituality and Slayage” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“Has Kabbalah Failed the Ritchies?” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“Hebrew Hammer 2 to Crucify Gibson” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“Faith and Acceptance in ‘Looking for Kitty’” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“Wedding Bell Blues” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
August 2006
“There’s Something About ‘Fluid’” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“Did Bad Breakup Cause Mid-East Conflict?” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“Coming Attractions” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
“Coping with ‘The Question‘” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
July 2006
“Courting Catastrophe” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
“What Would Jesus/Moses/Muhammad Blog?” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“Naked Archeologist Decodes Exodus” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
“Polygamy–Hot Kosher Sex,” and “Hazon–Hot Organization” (AJL Magazine, no byline
June 2006
“A Dating Departure ” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
“Hardly Model Behavior at the Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency” (Beliefnet’s Idol Chatter blog)
May 2006
“Living the List” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
“Interrogating the Dating Guru” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
April 2006
“Free to Be…” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
March 2006
“Making Space” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
“Post-Purim Revelations” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
“Marching With the Penguins” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
February 2006
“Writing the Book on Breaking Up” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
January 2006
“Soul (Mates) On Ice” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
“What You Can’t Leave Behind” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
December 2005
“Jewtopia: A Review” (InterfaithFamily.com)
“Frumster’s Extreme Makeover” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
“Forever Friends” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
“Everything is Illuminated” (GenerationJ.com–Sole Searching)
November 2005
“The Truth About Online Dating” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
“Booking a Voyage Out of Darkness” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)
September 2005
“Improv For Daters” (Jewish Week–First Person Singular)