Writing, Editing & Creative Media Consulting
Press, Podcasts & Punditry
2021
Quoted in Jewish Journal about “Why Jews Laugh”
Quoted in CNET about My Unorthodox Life
http://cnet.com/news/netflixs-my-unorthodox-life-perpetuates-harmful-jewish-stereotypes-some-say/
Speaking about “TVGoneJewy: TV’s Jewish Renaissance” at UConn
2020
Finding Favorites podcast: More about the meaning of Star Wars
Star Wars & Judaism – an interview at Limmud Seattle
2019
Spent an hour with behavioral scientist Peter McGraw at the I’m Not Joking podcast, talking comedy, community, connection, leadership, culture and so much more!
2018
Jay’s 4 Questions Podcast: A conversation with Esther Kustanowitz
2017
Breaker/Broken Podcast: Stories from the Heart
No Shame on U Podcast: GrokNation Editorial Director Esther Kustanowitz
2014
Comedy, Community, and Comfort: Eli on-Air with Esther Kustanowitz
2012
Spotlight Storytelling: What Home Can Be, by Esther Kustanowitz
2011
June
“The Big Jewcy: Esther K. – Jewish Engagement Superstar” (Jewcy.com)
March
“Esther’s in Vegas – Tweeting Jewish Conferences” (NY Jewish Week)
“Birthright Vegas” (NY Jewish Week)
2010
December
“Favorite Twitter Folk of 2010” (Jewcy.com)
“College Students Slow to Use Twitter,” Binghamton University Pipe Dream
November
“G-dcast: Parshat Vayetze” (University of Maryland Hillel)
August
“Book Review: An Ethical Look at Sex & Intimacy,” The Reporter Group
(also in St. Louis Jewish Light)
“On Expectations and Commitment,” The Jewish Writing Project
January
“EstherK’s Inner Jewish Feminist Comes Out: A Meditation on Humor and Stereotypes” (Jewess Blog)
2009
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- October:
“Hustle File: Esther D. Kustanowitz”
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- September: “
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An $800,000 Israel Ad Campaign to Save ‘Lost’ Diaspora Jews Falls Flat And Dies
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May
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- Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles:
JDate: It’s Not Just for Jews Anymore
March
Huffington Post: “Jumpstart: Spotlight on Startups”
Washington Jewish Week: “Tweeting ShabbatOnline Social Network Offers Shabbat Reading for the New Media Masses”
January
JTA: “Israel activists blending new, traditional tactics in PR battle”
2008
“In the JBlogosphere, Everyone Knows Your Screen Name,” Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles (August, 2008)
“G-dcast Offers Hip, Animated Torah Videos,” North Shore Congregation Israel (Glencoe, Illinois, 10/22/08)
“Israelity Tour Teases Trips With an Israeli Beat,” Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles (02/15/08)
“NJOP Brings Something New to the Shabbat Table,” EmediaWire (02/21/08)
2007
December
“Generation Web,” Jewish News of Greater Phoenix (12/07/07)
November
“Impressions of a first-timer at the UJC General Assembly,” JewishTucson.org (11/07)
“Understanding Gen-X and Gen-Y,” SoCalStudentServices (11/23/07)
“The Youngers of Zion,” NY Jewish Week
“An Old/New Song for Federation System,” NY Jewish Week
“ UJC reaches out to young innovators,” JTA
Reprinted in the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix
“2007 GA Spotlights Next Generation,” GA Leadership Briefing
“From the GA: Are We Too Narcissistic?” (MyJewishLearning.com)
August
NEW!!
“Rewiring the Jewish Teacher,” NY Jewish Week
“Extra, Extra, Read All About It,” NJ Jewish Standard
July
“Room with a Zionist View,” Ha’aretz
January
“Eat the Press,” Huffington Post
2006
“The Festival of Shedding Light: Hanukkah Makes it Hip to Be Jewish” (Exit Weekly, December 13, 2006)
November
New Generation of Publications Seeks ‘Users’ to Engage Jewishly (JTA)
October
Old Labels Feel Stiff for Flexidox (The Forward)
July
Young Brandeis Graduate’s Suicide Highlights Pressure to Wed (NY Sun)
June
People of the Blog (Jewish Standard, NJ)
From Internet Pals to Real Friends, Bloggers Remake Jewish Community (Jewish Standard, NJ)
May
People of the Blog: Kvelling and Kvetching with Web Diaries (J. Weekly, San Francisco)
Blogs and the Jewish Question: An Obvious Link (Philadelphia Jewish Exponent)
From Internet Pals to Real Friends, Bloggers Remaking Jewish Community (JTA)
March
Jews in Cyberspace (Connecticut Jewish Ledger)
February
Sailing the Kosher Seas (Jewish News of Greater Phoenix)
January
Bnai Brith radio interview, January 1, 2006
Jewish Surfers Pick Up Blogging (Jerusalem Post)
A Blog World After All (Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
Blogging as a Community Growth Tool (StudioJ, link to MP3 of radio interview)
2005
Do Narnia Books Speak Volumes? (NJ Jewish Standard)
The Jewish Corner of the Blogosphere (Jewsweek)
Should You Ask a Man Out? (MSN Dating & Personals)
Dame Esther Kustanowitz: The Interview (Jmerica’s Yo Yenta blog)
Truth and Consequences (Salon.com)
How Blogging Changed My Life (World Jewish Digest)