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 Why Won’t Publications Give Gal Gadot The Respect She Deserves?
Heads, not to mention eyes, must be rolling at the magazine “Vanity Fair,” where a cover photo of Hollywood royalty taken by Annie Leibowitz has captured unwanted attention. The image includes the actress Reese Witherspoon leaning sensuously against Oprah. The “Big Little Lies” star looks perfect, except that she has three legs. Inside the magazine,…
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The Schmooze Feminists Have ‘Snake-Filled Heads,’ Missouri Senate Candidate Announces
The condition of our nation’s democracy is no joke, but sometimes you have to take your laughs of despair where you can get them. The rogue-ishly attractive, loathsomely misogynist Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Courtland Sykes specializes in this kind of unintentional end-of-days humor. His belief that feminists’s heads are full of snakes, his desire to…
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The Schmooze Yankees Minor League Team Renames Itself ‘Trenton Pork Roll’
For reasons unknown, baseball is not seen as relevant as it once was. Unrelated, no doubt, is the choice by the New York Yankees’ minor league team to rebrand themselves one day a week as “the Trenton Pork Roll” during their 25th anniversary season (they will continue to be “the Trenton Thunder on other nights.)…
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The Schmooze Here’s The Advice That Obama Told A Synagogue Audience He Gives To His Daughters
Barack Obama dazzled on Wednesday night in one of his first public speaking events since the end of his term. The 44th American president spoke at the Streicker Center at Temple Emanu-El in New York City’s Upper East Side. The crowd who filled the historic synagogue saw a recent president who was relaxed, glowing (seriously,…
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The Schmooze Julia Louis-Dreyfus Is Recovering Well After Finishing Chemo
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the once and future duchess of Jewish diaspora culture, was seen out today for the first time since finishing her chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. The actress was diagnosed in September, and spoke publicly and poignantly about the prevalence of breast cancer diagnoses — using it as an opportunity to highlight the need…
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The Schmooze Does ‘Tootsie’ Really Need To Be Made Into A Broadway Musical?
The Schmooze will be the first to tell you that almost anything can be a great musical. Every time we hear some holier-than-thou would-be art critic, usually a dad or some other form of man, asking “Does “Mean Girls”/”Shrek”/that obscure tv show/the life of that interesting woman” really need to be made into a musical?”…
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The Schmooze Happy Birthday To Virginia Woolf, Who Hated The Sound Of Jewish Laughter
Today marks the birth date of brilliant novelist and thinker Virginia Woolf, whose writings are a staple of modernist literature and whose feminist philosophy laid out some of the blueprints for the feminist movement we enjoy today. Sadly, Virginia Woolf hated Jews a lot. Jewish characters in her novels were written as ugly stereotypes, and…
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The Schmooze Married ‘Alt-Right’ Activist Jack Prosobiec Banned From Feminist Dating App
What’s on a dating app? Men holding fish they’ve murdered. Men promising they will never reveal your shared shameful secret meeting place (a dating app). Men who don’t speak English — or any other human language. And, for a brief time, on a dating app was an “alt-right” conspiracist named Jack Prosobiec who is best…
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