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 2017 Is Bad Enough For Jews Without Seeing Mel Gibson In ‘Daddy’s Home 2’
If comedy movies are a chance to escape from your troubles and enter a pleasant fantasy-world of laughter, “Daddy’s Home 2”, premiering today, may be a mistake. The film, starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as co-parents, with Gibson as Wahlberg’s rakish father, cost seventy million dollars to make. Trailers and press for the film,…
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The Schmooze Drake Explains His Large Collection Of Designer Purses
Drakes says the darnedest things. The 31 year-old Jewish rap king and all around guy-who-seems-like-the-grownup-version-of-that-kid-at-summer-camp-who-wouldn’t-stop-beatboxing is on the November cover of the Hollywood Reporter. In the interview with Tatiana Siegel, Drake said so many insane things that it became extremely difficult to pick a headline for this piece. Here are the Drake-st things we learned…
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The Schmooze Will Smith Visited The Western Wall And Crashed A Bar Mitzvah
Art and life collided today when “Men In Black” star Will Smith visited Jerusalem, home of a very different kind of Men In Black, while filming Disney’s live-action “Aladdin” nearby in the Wadi Rum area in Jordan. You don’t see this too often! Actor and musician #WillSmith at the Western Wall (Kotel) in #Israel ??…
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The Schmooze Fran Drescher And Susie Essman Played Sisters On ‘Broad City’
“Don’t raise your voice to me, missy! I’m the person who taught you to insert a diaphragm, so lets just show a little respect!” Susie Essman screamed at Fran Drescher Noevember 8th on ‘Broad City.’ Things are looking up in 2017. The seventh episode of the politically fraught fourth season of “Broad City” offers a…
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The Schmooze The ACLU Informs Taylor Swift That It Is Legal To Compare Her To Hitler
Ah, time. It’s a funny thing. On this day last year, so many of us were dragging Steinway-sized cases of champagne out of Costco in anticipation of a woman making history and changing the course of humankind. Today I am here to tell you that while Taylor Swift’s lawyer is VERY sure that Taylor Swift…
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The Schmooze Why Larry David’s Holocaust Jokes Didn’t Go Far Enough, And Four Comedians Whose Did
Almost exactly a year ago, I was in a synagogue in Brooklyn during Hebrew school dismissal one Sunday morning when I heard two 10-year-old girls chatting. Girl 1: I’m so MAD about the election. I don’t want there to be another Holocaust! Girl 2: They’ll make us shave our heads. Girl 1: I’d look terrible…
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The Schmooze The Real Winners Of The World Series Are The Jewish People
The Miracle of Hanukkah. Our roster of Nobel Prize winners. Sandy Koufax’s refusal to play on Yom Kippur. It’s hard to say which story Jews have been dining out on the longest. Now we can add another to the rotation: the year when each World Series team had its own Jewish superstar. Two Jews. Two…
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The Schmooze Beyonce Joins Seth Rogen For Cast Of ‘Lion King’ Live Action Movie
What do Beyoncé, Seth Rogen, Billy Eichner, and James Earl Jones have in common? Besides the exact guest list for your fantasy dinner party, that is. All four will star in Disney’s live-action “The Lion King” remake, in theaters in 2019. As Nala, Pumbaa, Timon, and Mufasa, respectively, the superstars will be joined in the…
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