Kevin Bacon and I are connected. I was in a movie with Julia Roberts, who was in Flatliners with Kevin Bacon. Two degrees. (OK, so I was in a movie theater with Julia Roberts, but I am connected...
Author - Esther Kustanowitz
Erev Shabbat Hebrew Grammar Smackdown
One of the reasons I love Facebook is that people send me stuff. Or, more accurately, they “share” a webpage or a website with their friends by posting it on their profiles, and then...
Judaism as Pop Culture Accessory: TV Edition
In his newest pop culture article in the NY Jewish Week, Liel Liebovitz identifies several characters in prime time who have invoked Jewish images and ideas, without them being Jewish themselves. He...
At the (Jewish) Movies
It’s Oscar season, which means the spotlight is on movies. But while nominated films get plenty of attention and GoogleNews reports from Sundance, we wanted to spotlight some films and...
Text Me Kosher…Text Me Meat…All My Dreams Fulfilled
[When in doubt, always sing my post titles.] I can’t tell you the number of times I’m in downtown Manhattan with some kosher people looking for a little post-PresenTense staff meeting...
When I Get That Feelin’, I Need Virtual Semicha…
[If you’re not singing the headline, you’re not as tickled as I am.] When Al Gore invented the internet, no doubt even the great visionary who used to be the next President of the United...
PresenText: The Art of New Jewish Media
True, PresenTense is a magazine, but we’re not just about the frontal presentation of articles and information. We’re going beyond the written page and beyond the internet, and providing...
Shabbat Challah
That’s right, I’m stealing themiddle’s job. Because homemade Challah (photographed last Friday in Jerusalem) is the bomb. But not the bad kind of bomb, the good kind. As in...