Jenny Singer is a freelance writer and a former Forward staff writer. She writes a weekly Substack about living with anxiety, called “Uneasy Going.”
Jenny Singer
By Jenny Singer
-
The Schmooze ‘I Was Afraid For My Life’ Amy Schumer Shares Sexual Abuse Story With Oprah
“It happens to all women.” That’s comedian Amy Schumer’s message about sexual assault, something she has experienced several times, she told Oprah Winfrey. Schumer, newly married and currently promoting her movie “I Feel Pretty,” has a rare ability to navigate the personal, the political, and the comic. On an episode of SuperSoul Conversations through Winfrey’s…
-
The Schmooze That Time Trump Made Michael Cohen Look Bad At His Son’s Bar Mitzvah
On your bar mitzvah, you become a man. Unless your dad is Michael Cohen, and he holds up your whole service waiting for his boss to arrive, in which case you are a man and your dad is a little boy. Like so many crumbs of matzo crunching under the relentless foot of fate, this…
-
The Schmooze Disney Will Sell These Rainbow Mouse Ears For LGBT Pride Month
“Micky Mouse Rainbow Love” is not the street name of a club drug. It is the name the Walt Disney Company has assigned the rainbow mouse ears they are now selling in Disney parks. in a ? full of people you’re all i ? thank you @disneyland for a day full of magic, new video,…
-
The Schmooze TV Show In The Works Will Interview Men Toppled By #MeToo
If America will watch people compete for a chance to marry a stranger and watch our president’s marriage be slowly unraveled by a cunning porn star, chances are we would watch men who have been accused of or admitted to sexual harassment interview each other. Journalist Tina Brown says she was approached to produce just…
-
The Schmooze The Women Reporters Who Broke The Weinstein Story Will Be The Subject Of A Movie
Through his movie production companies Miramax and The Weinstein Company, Harvey Weinstein told hundreds of stories. Today it was announced that Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B and Megan Ellison’s Anapurna Pictures have secured the rights to make a movie about New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s coverage of the Harvey Weinstein…
-
The Schmooze Voice Of Apu On ‘The Simpsons’ May Quit Over Racism Claims
This week Hank Azaria, the Jewish actor who voiced Apu Nahasapeemapetilon for 29 seasons of “The Simpsons” announced that he may step away from the role. But what’s the problem with Apu? What’s the problem with the animated character Apu, a thickly-accented, literally cartoonish convenience store-owner, being one of the only South-Asian characters on American…
-
The Schmooze Mia Farrow Wanted Dylan To Keep Quiet About Woody Allen Abuse Claims — At First
At the Time 100 Gala on Tuesday night, Ronan Farrow was honored for reporting that helped uncover the Harvey Weinstein allegations and helped launch the social and political movement, #MeToo. At the event the writer’s mother, actress Mia Farrow, gave a rare comment about her daughter Dylan Farrow’s accusations that her father (and Mia Farrow’s…
-
Books 5 Reasons To Read The Bible — Even Though GQ Says You Shouldn’t
A list of “21 Books You Don’t Have To Read” by GQ seems to exist to give 21 pretentious people the opportunity to describe the specific ways in which they are pretentious. The fact is, there is only one book in the world you absolutely should not read, and that is “Lolita”, a diamond-covered trashcan…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News The ADL’s turn away from civil rights was years in the making — Oct. 7 accelerated it
- 2
Culture He works at a Holocaust museum by day. How’d he end up in ‘Marty Supreme’?
- 3
News The Holocaust Torah that survived a Mississippi synagogue fire was brought there by the state’s only survivor
- 4
Fast Forward ‘Dilbert’ cartoon creator once questioned the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust
In Case You Missed It
-
Culture His mother is Israeli, his father is Palestinian. His life? Complicated.
-
Opinion There’s a vicious antisemitic precedent for Trump’s demonization of Renée Nicole Good
-
Film & TV Judd Apatow on why Mel Brooks’ influence ‘will last as long as our jokes’
-
Opinion I was in a high school production of ‘Anne Frank’ — today in Minnesota, I feel her fear more than ever
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
