Jenny Singer is a freelance writer with pieces in Vox, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and more. She was previously a staff writer at Glamour and the Forward, and she’s currently getting an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa.
Jenny Singer
By Jenny Singer
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The Schmooze This All-Women Israeli Hip-Hop Group Dancing To Psalms Will Make Your Day
Israelis. Hip hop. Orthodox female singers. Psalms. Implied political implications. This music video, a new setting of Psalm 102:14 by Julliard-educated religious musician Franciska in collaboration with the Halelu hip-hop troupe, has it all. Come for the amazing thing one of the dancers does with her ponytail, stay for the spiritually catchy all-female psalm rendition,…
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The Schmooze Happy HAIMakkah! Listen To The Girl Band’s Killer New Hanukkah Song
Put on your yarmulke, the Haim sisters are taking over Hanukkah. Este, Danielle, and Alana Haim, known collectively as the rock band Haim, may be about to unseat Adam Sandler in the eternal Best Hanukkah Song competition. The band debuted a brief new Hanukkah song on their Instagram on Tuesday, with the caption, “sandler we’re…
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The Schmooze ‘Saturday Night Live’ Seriously Mishandled Al Franken’s Assault Accusations
Is America ready for a nuanced commentary that uses comedy to examine how women can be inconsistent about sexual harassment allegations? Of course! We are always ready for great, nuanced criticism no matter how hard it is to hear. But what happened on “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend was not great or nuanced. The…
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The Schmooze Malala Yousafzai Talks About Palestinian Freedom While At The Anne Frank House
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani women’s education activist and youngest person to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, visited the Anne Frank House on Sunday, December 10. Yousafzai, a student at Oxford University who has launched major education initiatives, was personally targeted and shot three times by a Taliban gunman on her school bus as a…
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The Schmooze James Franco Joined By Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill And Steve Martin For ‘Saturday Night Live’ Monologue
James Franco, Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill do everything together — they smoke weed, they make movies and now they deliver “Saturday Night Live” monologues together. Franco hosted the late night variety show for the 4th time this weekend, and was joined for his opening monologue by comedians Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill and even Steve…
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The Schmooze 36 Emotional Reactions To ‘Soon By You’ From A Reform Woman
“Soon By You” is a wildly buzzed-about web-series about a group of shiny haired Orthodox Jews and Jewesses looking for love on the dirty dirty Upper West Side. I had heard of the show, which was created by one of the show’s stars, Leah Gottfried, who bases it on her own experiences as a single…
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The Schmooze Here Is The Letter Aly Raisman Wanted To Read At Larry Nassar’s Sexual Assault Trial
On Thursday, disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to 60 years in prison on child pornography charges. Nassar has been accused of sexual assault by 125 women, including high profile Olympic gymnasts Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney. Nassar pleaded guilty to 10 counts of first degree criminal sexual conduct in November and…
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The Schmooze No, Forcing Jews To Bake Swastika Cakes Is Not Like Forcing Homophobes To Bake Gay Cakes
New Year’s resolutions: get outdoors more often, read more books, and stop hanging out with people who only bring up the Holocaust as a way to illustrate unrelated arguments and never to talk about the systematic murder of six million Jews. This week the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune published an editorial, “Wedding Cakes…
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