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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Fast Forward Move Over, ‘Maccabeats’! These Are The Best Hanukkah Music Videos Of 2017
2010 was a happy time. The great recession was more or less over and Julia Louis-Dreyfus was getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. When the then-Yeshiva University a cappella group The Maccabeats released a Hanukkah themed parody of “Dynamite” by Taio Cruz that went viral, ultimately garnering over 13 million views, the…
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The Schmooze 9 Best Jewish Rage Tweets — Starting With Roy Moore’s ‘Jewish Attorney’
Biblically, Christianity is a religion of forgiveness and selfless love. Judaism? Less so. According to our oldest sacred texts we have an angry God and we are an angry people. We strike death blows on Egyptians. We gouge out the eyes of our enemies. We kill 200 Philistines and take their foreskins as spoils. Today…
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The Schmooze Seth Rogen Isn’t An Imprisoned Terrorist In Cahoots With Miley Cyrus — Whatever The Internet Says
Seth Rogen isn’t a terrorist who has long planned a presidential assassination along with Miley Cyrus and James Franco. If he was working with Miley Cyrus we would know — his movies would have more women in them! (I’m going for a tone of light humor that nevertheless seethes with feminist rage here. How’m I…
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The Schmooze ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Is Back For A 10th Season
When we last saw Larry David, who with Gal Gadot and Ruth Bader Ginsberg makes up the holy trinity for Jews, he was running from an assassin. The end of the long-awaited 9th season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” found our hero breaking with Lin Manuel Miranda over creative choices and being pursued by a would-be…
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The Schmooze WATCH: Conan O’Brien And An Orthodox Jew Light A Vape Pen Menorah
As the song goes: A Rock of ages, let our song praise thy saving power! / Thou giving us the vape pen menorah, is your finest hour. That hour arrived on Wednesday night’s episode of “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” when the host invited the show’s Orthodox music producer to the stage to demonstrate one…
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The Schmooze ‘Hitler’ Accusation Angers The Real Housewives Of New Jersey
Was Adolf Hitler a good person? No, he wasn’t, and The Real Housewives of New Jersey can all agree on that. But should non-Jews use Hitler as rhetorical examples to prove points to their Jewish friends who are children of Holocaust survivors? The Real Housewives of New Jersey are split on this question. Yes, ladies…
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The Schmooze The Surprising Reason Behind The Redskins Hoax Going Around
“Dan Snyder Honors Native Americans, Changes Team Mascot To Washington Redhawks” is how headlines appeared this morning on webpages like ESPN Sports, The Washington Post and Sports Illustrated. But none of those outlets actually wrote about the Washington football team changing its name. And Redskins owner Daniel Snyder has not changed the team’s controversial name…
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The Schmooze The 12 Best GIF(t)s For Hanukkah
Hanukkah is a great time to exchange gifts with your neighbors and loved ones. But it is just as good of a time to exchange GIFs, or Graphic Interchange Formats. Here are the very best Hanukkah GIFs to keep you laughing for eight nights. via GIPHY Ross is without a doubt the worst character on…
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