No, not that Esther. But Esther Kustanowitz does have a Web site called The Book of Esther. She also carries a ridiculous number of titles in Jewish journalism — senior editor for PresenTense, contributor to papers including mine and blogger here, here and here.
She’s a talented, prolific writer, and has a good piece in the current American Jewish Life magazine about Shalom Auslander’s foreskin, er "Foreskin’s Lament." Here it is:
In the beginning, the name of a child represents not so much the child himself, but the hope of his parents. As the child grows, he might grow into the significance of that name, or spend his life running from it. Shalom Auslander was named for a peace that his parents hoped to find after the death of one child and the deafness of another. But Auslander’s memoir, Foreskin’s Lament, illustrates that, sometimes, peace of mind is just not in the cards.
