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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The Schmooze James Comey’s Favorite Jews
Stormy Daniels is going to have to get in line after James Comey as 2018’s least likely celebrity. The former director of the FBI has launched a triumphant comeback. The 57 year-old was once regarded as a shifty-eyed bureaucrat who, arguably, maneuvered his role in the Hilary Clinton email investigation to influence American politics and…
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The Schmooze ‘Glee’ Stars Lea Michele And Darren Criss Will Tour Together
Every performer on the hit TV show “Glee” was wildly talented. It was only together that they became, despite their outstanding musical abilities, unbearable. Maybe that’s because most music is meant to be performed with instruments? Maybe it’s because not every song does best when performed in a 2000s bubblegum pop style? Who’s to say….
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The Schmooze ‘Women Should Get Our Own Stories’: Rachel Weisz Objects To Female James Bond
Sing with me: How do you solve a problem like entrenched-societal-misogyny?! How do you catch egalitarianism and pin it down? Husband and wife Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are the latest to try to deal with ye olde flibbertigibbet known as gender inequality, through the lens of the “James Bond” franchise. As Craig, 50, prepares…
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The Schmooze Gal Gadot Posts Emotional Tribute To Her Grandfather On Holocaust Remembrance Day
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, actress Gal Gadot honored a survivor in her own family: Her grandfather, Abraham Weiss. “My grandpa is always with me,” she wrote in the caption of a video of the actress throwing her arms around Weiss at the premiere of her movie, “The Fast And The Furious 5” in 2011. Weiss,…
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The Schmooze Guess Which Comedian Officiated Amy Schumer’s Wedding In Drag
On February 13, 2018, comedian Amy Schumer got married. Like so many people, I thought Amy Schumer was going to remain single forever, a nun wed to her comedy about the horrors of dating straight men. I really thought she would never leave us. Like so many, on February 12, I was plunged into darkness…
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The Schmooze Sacha Baron Cohen Will Play Israeli Spy Eli Cohen In Netflix Series
Sacha Baron Cohen will star in a limited Netflix series about the Israeli Mossad agent Eli Cohen, who served in Syria as a spy for Israel in the 1960s. The six-episode series, “The Spy,” will chronicle Cohen’s heroic intelligence-gathering work in Syria from 1961-1964, when he was discovered and executed by the Syrian government. Cohen’s…
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The Schmooze Margaret Atwood Is Accused Of Blaming ‘Star Wars’ For Inspiring 9/11
Though we will likely never be able to prove definitively that “Star Wars” inspired the attacks of September 11, it seems reasonable to assume that they did not. This is an assumption we should reexamine, according to “The Handmaiden’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood, who said in an interview with Variety that the “idea” for 9/11…
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The Schmooze Bethenny Frankel Says She Has — Ahem! — Some History With Meghan Markle’s Jewish Ex
Internationally renowned aid worker Bethenny Frankel* announced this week that she “kind of” went on a date with Meghan Markle’s ex-husband Trevor Engelson. Should your memory need refreshing: Markle, who is set to marry heir-to-the-British-throne Prince Harry on May 19, is divorced from American Trevor Engelson, a greasy-yet-affable movie producer who just happens to be…
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