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 It’s The 5th Yartzeit Of The ‘Twilight’ Movie Franchise
Five years ago today, the final movie in a franchise that reframed the national conversation around sex and romance was released. “Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2” represented the end of the general public’s formal relationship with the pedophilia, incest, bestiality, and necrophilia-flexible world of the “Twilight” saga. Stephanie Meyers wrote four “Twilight” series books, and those…
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The Schmooze Drake Stopped His Concert Because He Saw A Man Groping Women
Drake has had more bar mitzvah parties than a boy should ever have, but on Tuesday he may have finally become a man. At an afterparty performance in Sydney, Australia, the polymath was rapping onstage when he saw someone in the audience he believed was groping women. A post shared by HOT 97 (@hot97) on…
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The Schmooze Announcing The Forward’s Sexiest Jewish Intellectual Award
As of Tuesday morning, America officially has the “Sexiest Man Alive” that it deserves: a 41 year-old divorcee with an arm tattoo and a history of homophobia longer than his back hair. Country star Blake Shelton was crowned People’s 33rd Sexiest Man Alive and immediately provoked a fanfare celebrating some of his most mindlessly hateful…
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Recipes Making Weed-Infused Matzo Balls With Joan Nathan
Queen of Jewish cooking Joan Nathan likes to add fresh ginger and nutmeg to her matzo balls. The Forward 50-honoree also puts homemade chicken stock into the matzo ball mix to add flavor. She finishes by mixing in chopped up fresh dill, parsley and cilantro. Recently, she added one more thing: Cannabis leaves. In collaboration…
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The Schmooze Miss Israel and Miss Iraq Pose On Instagram For World Peace
Contestants at the Miss Universe beauty pageant say they want one thing and one thing only: world peace. And on Monday, Adar Gandelsman of Israel and Sarah Idan of Iraq took to Instagram to make a surprisingly radical statement about world peace and the power of images. Gandelsman, representing Israel at the Miss Universe pageant…
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The Schmooze Jenny Slate and Chris Evans, Kindly Stop Playing With My Heart
I believe it was Stacy Ann “Fergie” Ferguson of the Black Eyed Peas who once sang, “Oh no, no, no, don’t phunk with my heart.” Fergie, who, notably, is also the vocalist on the band’s songs “Where Is The Love?” and “Don’t Lie”, does not joke. And neither do I. It is with great gravity…
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The Schmooze The Dreidel Fidget Spinner Is Here — Just In Time For Hanukkah
According to the story of Hanukkah, the Maccabees fought against forced assimilation to Hellenist culture. Now 2017 has us asking…is a little assimilation so bad? Assimilation has brought us things like matzo-ball ramen, Jewish baseball players, and heck, even presents on Hanukkah. Now, it’s brought us something even better: The Fidget Dreidel. Like latkes and…
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The Schmooze ‘Justice League’ Star Ezra Miller Was Told Coming Out Was ‘A Mistake’
Queer-identifying Jewish actor Ezra Miller says he was told that he’d “made a mistake” by coming out. In an interview with ShortList he said that after he described himself as “queer” in 2012, “I was told I had done a ‘silly’ thing in…thwarting my own potential to be a leading man.” via GIPHY Since 2012,…
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