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 Watch Ariana Grande And Barbra Streisand Belt Their Hearts Out
Like the moon and the sun, the boundless sky and the deep blue sea, like a shimmering blonde blowout and a gigantic ponytail, Barbra Streisand and Ariana Grande, two queens of entertainment, have met at last. The 77 year-old Jewish singer and cultural icon performed at Chicago’s United Center on Tuesday night, a one-night-only spectacular…
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The Schmooze The Owner Of Soul Cycle And Equinox Is Hosting A Huge Trump Fundraiser
“Find your soul.” “You did not wake up to be mediocre.” “I am…enough.” Such are the phrases you will hear if you enter a SoulCycle, the wildly popular fitness company that offers group stationary-biking classes and mood-lit spirituality for a steep fee. (A single class at a Manhattan SoulCycle costs $36, which is 2.5 times…
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The Schmooze 100 Models Blast Victoria’s Secret For Role In Jeffrey Epstein Abuse
“It is deeply disturbing that these men appear to have leveraged their working relationship with Victoria’s Secret to lure and abuse vulnerable girls.” That’s the message from over one hundred models in a public letter released on Tuesday, addressed to John Mehas, CEO of popular lingerie company Victoria’s Secret. The once-omnipresent underwear company, which has…
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The Schmooze Monica Lewinsky To Produce Clinton Scandal TV Show, Beanie Feldstein To Star
It is said that living well is the best revenge. But perhaps from here on out this will be said: becoming a cult personality and then producing a TV show about the most infamous chapter of your life, starring a beloved young actress, is truly the best revenge. That is what Monica Lewinsky is set…
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The Schmooze Haim’s New Song ‘Summer Girl’ References A Popular Jewish Song
In “Remember That We Suffered,” a song in the musical theater-based TV show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” a rabbi character played by Patti Lupone laments on behalf of Jewish educators everywhere, “I mean, would it be such a crime/for the Beastie Boys or Haim/to sing it in their songs one time/’Remember that we suffered?’” HAIM — the…
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The Schmooze Jennifer Lopez And Alex Rodriguez Are In Israel, Having The Time Of Their Lives
Roger Waters wants to stop you from performing in Israel. Lana Del Rey and Lorde cancelled their planned tour stops after hearing out BDS activists. On the other hand, after their Tel Aviv performance, Jon Bon Jovi told his Jewish bandmate David Bryan that his father would have been proud. And floating above it all…
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The Schmooze Victoria’s Biggest Secret? Deciding Whether To Do A Fashion Show In The Shadow Of Sexual Abuse
Ratings have plummeted. Marketing chief Ed Razek drew outcry last year when he said that fat and transgender people have no place on a fashion runway. And the news that L Brands Corp. CEO Les Wexner has counted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein as a close business associate might just be its end — the…
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The Schmooze Can Chavkin and Malloy Do For ‘Moby-Dick’ What Lin-Manuel Miranda Did For ‘Hamilton’?
In June 2017, writer and composer Dave Malloy shared a diagram of some notes for his “Moby-Dick” musical on Twitter, complete with a cartoon sketch of a smiling whale. Beneath the diagram, in quotes, were the words, “We’ll not lower for calves.” Lowering may be exactly what you imagine when you hear that a whaling…
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