Author - Esther Kustanowitz

Here’s a job title you’ve never heard before: Haredi action movie director. Despite a tradition of shunning popular culture influences, it looks like Israel’s Haredi population is...

Because I write so much about singles stuff, it seems that everyone–single, married, divorced, old, young, religious, secular, men and women and everyone else who fits other unlisted...

Here is the actual winner of Miss Tznius 1989, a controversial victory, because by the time of her Prom, Shmushi Feigelstock was already married! Esther wuz robbed! So, the secret’s finally...

Since I was a Jawa-sized Jewess, growing up in New Jersey and attending Jewish schools, I have been drawn to the mythology of Star Wars. I saw all three movies (because then, we knew them as a three...

In Gothamist’s recap of what opening night screenings of “Revenge of the Sith” — which they termed the “Nerdocalypse” — were like: …many were hoping to...

Alison Stern Golub, a writer living in Israel, relays a story about a friend of hers who found himself in a bar in Beer Sheva, staring down an Auschwitz-style tattoo on a guy too young to have been...