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 Emily Ratajkowski’s Sexy Pasta Video Counts Down To Christmas
Kiss today goodbye and point me towards tomorrow — I don’t regret what I did for love. But will Emily Ratajkowski regret what she did for ‘LOVE’? The lingerie-clad model made sensual love to a table covered in spaghetti marinara for the “LOVE” Magazine advent calendar this weekend. Staring at the camera as she rubbed…
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The Schmooze ‘Welcome To Hell’: ‘Saturday Night Live’ Ushers Men Into 2018
Next time you hear a man complaining that in light of the recent spate of sexual assault allegations he is feeling afraid of how he should behave, whom he can trust, or in doubt about our justice system, just quiet him with a few bars of “Welcome to Hell.” The creepy all-girl pop anthem that…
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The Schmooze Jaden Smith Is Dating Jewish Actress Odessa Adlon
Let’s take a break from the Russia probe and probe into the deliciously irrelevant facts of the lives of perfect strangers: the dating habits of celebrity children. Jaden Smith, the 19 year-old son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith, distinguished himself at an early age as one of our culture’s most eclectic interview subjects. Actress…
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The Schmooze How To Help Your Parents Through The 5 Stages Of Garrison Keillor Grief
Like so many people, I was born. My parents decided to have me, and take care of me, and buy me everything I wanted and needed. They changed my diapers, funded my education and invested in over a decade of orthodontia. They read all seven “Harry Potter” books out loud to me from start to…
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The Schmooze ‘Please stop complimenting me!’ Beanie Feldstein Says Being Thinner Doesn’t Make You Better
You are going to have to work very, very hard to not fall in love with Beanie Feldstein by the end of her body image-themed personal essay. Oh, you don’t know who Beanie Feldstein is? Well, she is a comedian capable of broad physical comedy, as she demonstrated in “Neighbors II: Sorority Rising.” via GIPHY…
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The Schmooze The Number Of Jewish Celebrity Write-Ins For NYC Mayor Is Rather Astonishing
Match-mayor, match-mayor, make me a match… the people of New York City have spoken, and Bill de Blasio is mayor once again, clinching his second term with a decisive 66.5% of the vote. But many other people of New York have also spoken, and they’ve spoken for something else entirely. Yahoo News tallied up the…
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The Schmooze Idina Menzel And Disney Sued For Allegedly Stealing ‘Let It Go’
‘Tis the season of cheery beverages, twinkly lights, and female power anthems about transcending social constructs. “Let It Go,” is the painfully catchy ballad that promoted snow-based self-acceptance when it debuted in the movie “Frozen” in 2013. Now that the temperature is dipping, “Let It Go” is once again gracing our airwaves and, perhaps, our…
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The Schmooze ‘I Won’t Show You My Penis’ — Jewish Candidate’s Campaign Ad Goes Viral
As 2017 runs towards its inevitable conclusion, it seems that the hardest (hardest?) lesson for men to learn this year was a simple one: nobody is interested in seeing your penis. The hardest lesson for women this year was that it is extremely difficult to be a woman (this is the lesson for women every…
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