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 Patriots Star Danny Amendola Receives The Leonard Cohen Treatment
The New England Patriots will square off against the Philadelphia Eagles this Sunday at Super Bowl LII, and fans have something to sing about it. Whether you’re a diehard Patriot or just tune in every year to hear the national anthem, you will be stirred by this strangely emotional parody of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” that…
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The Schmooze Fall In Love With Jeff Lurie, the Jewish Eagles Owner and Renaissance Man
Jewish football fans are well aware at this point that Robert Kraft, owner of the Patriots NFL team, is a Jew. A philanthropist and a businessman from an Orthodox family, Kraft has funded a professorship at Brandeis and supported football teams in Israel. The Hillel building at Columbia University bears his family name. But as…
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The Schmooze Siggy Flicker, Unlikely Voice For Holocaust Education On ‘The Real Housewives,’ Departs Show
There was a time when you might have prayed, “May my daughter never grow up to be a star on the reality TV show ‘Real Housewives.’” Now you can change that prayer to, “Should my daughter grow up to be a star on ‘Real Housewives,’ may she be like Siggy Flicker.” In a dreamlike turn…
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The Schmooze The ‘Israeli SNL’ Just Took A Stand For Refugees In An Unbelievably Creative Way
“Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt,” the Torah tells us. Even if you are now an actor starring on one of Israel’s most popular and influential television shows, you were once a stranger. That’s just what the team behind “Eretz Nehederet,” Israel’s version of “Saturday…
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The Schmooze Abusive Or Empowered? Sara Netanyahu Screams At Aide In New Leaked Tape
Likudnik, Shas voter, Yesh Atid-er, or just a gal who crumples up the newspaper and throws it at the wall when she reads about Israel’s confusing parliamentary system — whoever you are, you have to admit there is nothing in the world like the leaked recording of a furious member of the Netanyahu family. For…
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The Schmooze Sportscaster Suspended For Calling Tom Brady’s Daughter ‘Annoying Little Pissant’
Well, there’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news is that there is a trendy young sports writer named Alex Reimer who apparently rocketed to sports-journalism fame as a tiny child, and he’s Jewish! The bad news is that he has been suspended for calling a five-year-old child an “annoying little pissant.” Five-time…
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The Schmooze Yes, Bruno Mars Is Jewish
The mild-mannered, mega-talented purveyor of some of the toe tapping-est popular music out there, Bruno Mars, is Jewish. The artist, who swept the Grammys on Sunday night, winning in the three major categories Best Album of the Year, Best Record of the Year, and Best Song of the Year, as well as awards for Best…
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The Schmooze The Best Moments Of The Grammys Featured Jews
We have arrived at the safest and most secure part of the year: We are exactly 364 days away from the next Grammy Awards. The musical awards ceremony, which showers celebrities with thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of awards, based on unknowable criterion in an interminable televised ceremony, has come and gone in 2018….
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