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 4 Things Yair Netanyahu Could Have Spent $116 On That Aren’t A Sex Worker
Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s son Yair (can we call him Baby Bibi?) is embroiled in scandal yet again. A 2015 recording of him that surfaced today on Israeli news. He is recorded on tape outside a strip club telling a friend that his father’s help pushing a $20 billion oil deal that benefited the…
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The Schmooze WATCH: Sarah Silverman’s Rabbi Sister Drops F-Bombs To Explain Judaism
“My third favorite sister, you guys!” Sarah Silverman exclaimed, welcoming one of her three sisters, the Jerusalem-based Reform rabbi Susan Silverman, to the talk show “I Love You, America.” In a brief, but stunningly specific, discussion on Sarah Silverman’s new Hulu show that aired around Thanksgiving, the sisters spent eight minutes lying on a bed,…
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The Schmooze ‘Time’s Up!’ This Jewish Actress’ Husband Carried Her Breast Pump At The Golden Globes
Almost exactly one year after the historic Women’s March on Washington, DC, the most powerful women in Hollywood gathered for a much more extravagant event that sent the same powerful message: Time’s Up. The slogan, which is also the name of a legal defense fund and initiative intent on applying the momentum for gender equality…
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The Schmooze Pink Will Sing The National Anthem At Superbowl LII
Pink will be singing the National Anthem at this year’s Superbowl on February 4 in Minneapolis, Variety reports. Pink is having some year. If things followed their normal pattern the singer, (given name Alecia Beth Moore) would be approaching irrelevance. The star, who identifies as an “Irish-German-Lithuanian-Jew” put out a remarkable stream of number one…
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The Schmooze Here Are The Best Jewish Moments From The 2018 Golden Globes
The 2018 Golden Globe Awards were a tremendous show of force (by Hollywood standards, at least) in support of women and sexually disenfranchised people. Tinseltown’s luminaries wore all black to protest sexual harassment in the industry, and some nominees brought feminist organizers as their plus-ones. The movies that took home the awards for best drama…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman Just Did Right By All Women At The Golden Globes
Natalie Portman, resplendent in a decadent velvet gown and her signature face-that-looks-like-it-was-personally-architected-by-God, almost made a huge mistake at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards. She followed Oprah. After Oprah Winfrey’s exceptionally barn-burning acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award, a speech that brought the entirety of the Hollywood glitterati to its feet with an evangelical…
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The Schmooze This Jewish Olympian Ice Skating To ‘Hamilton’ Will Make Your Day
Jason Brown is one of the most formidable names in men’s figure skating, known for his flawless spins and extension and astonishing flexibility. And it’s not just that Brown is a graduate of the Union of Reform Judaism camp systems whose tight knit Jewish family celebrates holidays together and spent Brown’s bar mitzvah party volunteering…
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The Schmooze ‘All About That Bass’ Singer Meghan Trainor Is Marrying Into The Tribe
Meghan Trainor has the outsized confidence, the straightened hair and the love-hate relationship with her butt of a Jewish girl (and I can say that because I’m so Jewish I’ve witnessed dozens of live circumcisions.) But Trainor, the 24-year-old singer-songwriter of bubblegum hits like “All About The Bass” and “Like I’m Gonna Lose You” is…
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