Jenny Singer is a freelance writer with pieces in Vox, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and more. She was previously a staff writer at Glamour and the Forward, and she’s currently getting an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa.
Jenny Singer
By Jenny Singer
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Life A comprehensive guide to the best Hanukkah songs of all time, from ‘I have a little dreidel’ to the latest Wicked parodies
Hanukkah songs from Adam Sandler, Daveed Diggs, and more
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Film & TV The real problem with ‘A Real Pain’ is that it isn’t Jewish enough
Jesse Eisenberg's movie follows a Holocaust tour and the pain of its participants, but seems to forget those things are connected
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Film & TV In one of the most specifically Jewish movies ever made, love triumphs over loneliness
'Between the Temples,' starring Carol Kane and Jason Schwartzman, is an indie Chelm story and a mumblecore midrash
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Culture How Barbra Streisand became a meme-able legend for a new generation
Sure, she has 43 Grammy nominations. But millennial and Gen Z fans might know Streisand best as the woman who cloned her dogs
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Books It was the million-selling novel that shaped a generation of Jews — does anybody still read it?
Leon Uris' epic 'Exodus,' and the film it inspired, once played a crucial role in changing American attitudes to Israel
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The Schmooze On Stephen Sondheim’s birthday, 856 words to make you fall in love with one of the greatest artists of all time
Today is the birthday of Stephen Sondheim, perhaps the musical theater’s greatest composer and lyricist who has ever lived. Sondheim is responsible for the lyrics of the Broadway musicals “Gypsy” and “West Side Story,” and the music and lyrics of “Sweeney Todd,” “Into The Woods,” “Sunday In The Park With George,” “A Funny Thing Happened…
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The Schmooze Happy birthday to Virginia Woolf, who hated the sound of Jewish laughter
Today marks the birth date of brilliant novelist and thinker Virginia Woolf, whose writings are a staple of modernist literature and whose feminist philosophy laid out some of the blueprints for the feminist movement we enjoy today. Sadly, Virginia Woolf hated Jews a lot. Jewish characters in her novels were written as ugly stereotypes, and…
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The Schmooze Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff is our hot Jewish dad crush
Editor’s note: We’re republishing this story, first published in July, 2019, after Kamala Harris was named vice president-elect on Nov. 7, 2020 — and Doug Emhoff, her hot Jewish lawyer husband, was standing right next to her to celebrate. If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention: We’re living at the near-height of anti-Semitic incidents in…
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