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 The Titan Of Jewish Singles Events Reveals Tips For Finding Your Soulmate
It’s Christmas Eve, and everyone knows what nice Jewish girls and boys should be doing — getting in shouting matches about politics with their parents in Chinese restaurants. But what should somewhat naughty single Jews do on the one night of the year when all the goys are busy? We interviewed Andy Rudnick, the founder…
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The Schmooze Sheryl Sandberg Is Helping Grieving Families Handle The Holidays
The Jewish festival of lights falls during the winter for a reason — in dark times we have to depend on communal sources of light to warm us. Sheryl Sandberg says your presence really is the best present you can give mourners during the holidays. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has made a second career of…
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The Schmooze An Israeli Columnist Said Gender Equality Is Like A Dog’s Bar Mitzvah, So Here Are Dogs We’d Like To See Have Bar Mitzvahs
On Monday, a columnist for Sheldon Adelson’s free daily newspaper, Israel Hayom, wrote an opinion piece comparing American Reform Jews demanding gender equality at the Western Wall to celebrating a dog’s bar mitzvah. In an article called “No Underdog,” Galit Distal Atbaryan wrote, “If I saw the Friedman family in Illinois celebrating their dog’s bar…
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The Schmooze How Meghan Markle’s Jewish Ex-Husband Became The Guy Who Lost Future Royal Bride
Well. Well, well, well. For one brief, shining moment, we thought there might be a Jewish Princess of England. We thought Prince Harry’s girlfriend (now fiancé) Meghan Markle could satisfy thousands of years of Jewish longing. We dared to hope that a dark-haired beauty with a social justice streak and the legal first name ‘Rachel’…
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The Schmooze How To Decorate For 8 Nights Of Melania-kkah
Christmas in Tarturus: Melania Trump has been ridiculed this week for decorating the White House to resemble the mythological Greek underworld’s hell. With a glistening, Styx-like passageway lined with foreboding grey-ish brambles that look like if they pricked you, you would sleep for one thousand years, Trump’s holiday White House is a shadowy realm of…
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The Schmooze Gal Gadot Branded ‘Mossad Agent’ By Arab Paper — Would She Really Have Time To Spy?
Gal Gadot really is a Wonder Woman — a former Miss Israel winner who served in the IDF, a movie star who films blockbusters while pregnant, a feminist icon who has taken stances against accused sexual predators and high heels — is there anything she can’t do? According to the Times of Israel, Lebanese paper…
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The Schmooze Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump Both Defended Malia Obama, But Who Did It Better?
Malia Obama, the former-first daughter whose scrutinized life has aroused the sympathy of many a Rabbi’s kid over the years, was seen in an online video this week blowing smoke rings. Footage of the 19 year-old Harvard University student blowing Gandalf-level smoke rings with apparent ease was released first on the site Barstool Sports and…
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The Schmooze Jennifer Lawrence And Darren Aronofsky Are Done
Jennifer Lawrence will not be meeting Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!” That is because they have broken up. The beautiful and talented 27 year-old actress and the weird-looking and talented 48 year-old director*** are no longer. Their relationship is as dead as Mila Kunis in Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” when Natalie Portman drags her corpse into a closet…
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