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Esther D. Kustanowitz was founding editor at GrokNation.com, and is currently a Contributing Writer at the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, and TV columnist at J. The Jewish Weekly of Northern California. She writes on topics ranging from comedy to grief, from women in leadership to social media culture. For several years, she wrote a singles column for the Jewish Week in New York for five years and has also written for The Forward, Haaretz, Lilith and Hadassah.

Books

She is currently writing Nothing Helps (But This Might Help): A Guide to Loss and What Comes After, a book that is part spiritual memoir and part guide for new mourners and those who surround them, trying to help.

She previously contributed to Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Sex and Intimacy (Jewish Publication Society, 2010).

Esther is also the author of The Hidden Children of the Holocaust (Rosen Publishing, 1999), a book for teenagers about children who survived the Holocaust in literal hiding or by hiding their identities. The Hidden Children is part of Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust, a series about teenage experiences during World War Two; the series’ academic advisor was noted author Yaffa Eliach.

Esther has contributed to and edited other books, including:

• Divine Wisdom & Warning: Decoded Messages From God, — 2014 (editor)
• The Hadassah Jewish Family Book of Health and Wellness — Jossey-Bass, 2006 (contributor)
• Al Qaeda’s Armies – Specialist Press International/Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2004 (editor)
• It Takes a Dream: The Story of Hadassah (second edition) — Gefen, 2002 (editor)
• The Messy Gourmet Cookbook — Writers Club Press, 2001 (proofreader)
• Training Wheels: Wheeling On — adult education curriculum, 1997 (contributor)

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