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!

Ignoring The Pettiness with Esther Kustanowitz

Ignoring The Pettiness with Esther Kustanowitz

2018

Some Yoda-Like Lessons on Interfaith ‘Star Wars’ Panel

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

    • October:

“Hustle File: Esther D. Kustanowitz”

    • September: “

Masa: Clueless, But Not Alone

    • ” (JPost)

An $800,000 Israel Ad Campaign to Save ‘Lost’ Diaspora Jews Falls Flat And Dies

    • ” (Forward)

May

    • 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)