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
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The Schmooze Howard and Beth Stern Are Fostering A Cat After That Was Allegedly Kept In A Freezer
Every morning I wake up and pray to God that today I will not have to write any articles about Howard Stern. Today is not that day. Howard Stern and his wife Beth Stern, an actress, writer, and activist in her own right, are fostering a three-month old kitten whose owner has been charged with…
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The Schmooze Uh Oh. We Have A Gal Gadot Controversy On Our Hands.
According to Robert Frost, nothing gold can stay. According to Bruce Lee, mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. According to the staff of the Forward, when the news of a Gal Gadot controversy was announced at a morning editorial meeting, indistinguishable shouting of several different opinions. Gal Gadot, alias…
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The Schmooze We Tried ‘JoyBox,’ The First Subscription Box For Jewish Holidays
It’s 2018, and if you aren’t regularly mailing adorable gift boxes to yourself, you aren’t living. I’m speaking, of course, about subscription boxes, a fruit-of-the-month-on-steroids trend where one pays to receive monthly or quarterly packages in the mail filled with themed products — Korean face masks, exotic spices, meal kits — if it’s fun and…
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The Schmooze Milo Yiannopoulos Uses Western Wall As Prop For Anti-Immigration Stunt
Alt-right activist Milo Yiannopoulos staged a photo-shoot for social media this week in which he put a letter in a mock Western Wall, asking for “speedy deportations.” The 33 year-old who has said of sexual relationships between 13 year-olds and adults, “these things do happen, perfectly consensually,” wore a kippah emblazoned with the acronym “ICE,”…
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The Schmooze Is An ‘Escape-the-Room’ Game Based On Pogroms Really Coming To Brooklyn?
You know that awful nightmare you have where you’re stuck in Europe on the eve of the Holocaust and your family can’t get visas and you end up trapped in an attic, trying not to breath as SS soldiers march beneath you? Wild rumors are spreading throughout the Jewish world by ear and by Internet…
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The Schmooze Zooey Deschanel Will Star As Belle In A Live Concert Version Of ‘Beauty and the Beast’
Zooey Deschanel, a woman whose comedic talents have long been gravely undervalued due to sexism but who nevertheless named her first child “Elsie Otter,” will star as Belle in a concert version of “Beauty and the Beast.” Disney announced on Monday that Deschanel will star as the bug-eyed French prisoner/reading tutor in a live concert…
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The Schmooze Darren Aronofsky, Stop Trying To Make ‘Mother!’ Happen
Darren Aronofsky, the man who sees scarves as an extension of his penis, has once again seized the attention of the public to complain that we don’t get his art. Ok, man. Aronofsky, whose 2017 thriller ‘Mother!’ received a score of 69% on Rotten Tomatoes (ayo) and was described by the New Yorker’s Richard Brody…
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The Schmooze Sally Fields’ Son Thanks Mom For Finally Introducing Him To Adam Rippon
Olympic figure skater and newly minted cultural icon Adam Rippon and celebrity offspring Sam Greisman’s love is written in the stars. However, it took Adam Rippon a little while to figure this out. After a highly publicized saga in which Greisman and his mother, actress Sally Fields, hatched a plot for Griesman and Rippon to…
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