The Observer, Yeshiva University’s Stern College of Women’s student newspaper, recently mentioned Jennifer Zunikoff’s storytelling in a November 2011 article covering the “Folktales of Israel: A Festival of Jewish Storytelling” honoring Peninnah Schram …

“Jennifer Rudick Zunikoff, a Jewish storyteller and educator based in Baltimore, spoke of her experience as a 22-year-old walking to the Western Wall for the first time. She gave a vivid description of the yellow stones, greenery, and kvitlach[notes] perched between the cracks… She described her utter shock that when she “felt the hard rock… [she] felt nothing.” Later on, she undergoes a spiritual transformation… The range of emotions she expresses in her spiritual journey is moving and eloquent.”

The Baltimore Jewish Times wrote about Jennifer Zunikoff in a January 2011 article...

Ms. Zunikoff, a … vivacious woman with an infectious smile, is one of the East Coast’s leading raconteurs. When she speaks,
people tend to lean forward in their seats and listen…

In her storytelling, Ms. Zunikoff said she is inspired by the injunction in the Torah, “We are not to remain indifferent”
(Deuteronomy 22:3). This command is not just restricted to the Jewish community, she said, but extends to every community one is part of, be it a neighborhood, a school or a temple…
For Ms. Zunikoff, storytelling is more than just a vocation. She said she believes it is the template for how a society’s members must interact with one another. Performing for schools, talking to different groups of people, participating in more community events are all ways to approach her mission…

She also realizes that there are only so many hours to a day. “If I train people in effective storytelling, they in turn can reach even more people,” she said. “The effect would be exponential.”

…Her life’s work, she said, revolves around telling the stories that are still being written, of helping each audience member find their story and their place within the community.

“Every person,” she said, “has the responsibility to share her stories if she wants to connect with others inside and outside of her community.”