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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Fast Forward Ted Cruz Congratulates Alex Bregman For ‘Very Cool’ Jewish World Series Success
Ted Cruz: he’s just like us! Obsessed with the Jews. Cruz tweeted a congratulation to the Chosen People today on the occasion of our representative Alex Bregman’s major success in the recent climactic World Series game. Despite the immediate, visceral reaction by his followers to the mention of the Jewish religion, Cruz bravely tweeted his…
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The Schmooze The Halacha Of The Jack O’Lantern: Is Yours Kosher?
‘Tis the season for Jews all over the world to carefully select and purchase a ritual object, cut it in just the right places, and burn it as a public sacrifice. That is, many of the Jews in our midst will be carving jack O’lanterns out of pumpkins. British comedian Ashley Blaker has humbly put…
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The Schmooze Israeli Bar Offers Discount To Women On Their Periods
Women spend roughly 25% of their time menstruating, a fact which alone should be enough to grant them monthly financial reparations from their governments. Never mind the fact that women are encouraged to pretend their periods don’t exist (the equivalent of pretending you don’t have a heavy, week-long bloody nose, if your nose could gestate…
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The Schmooze Jewish Owned Ride Sharing Startup Strikes A Deal On ‘Shark Tank’
When the now 25 year-old Isaac Deutsch came to Zoli Honig in January 2015 with an idea for a free, electric, car-sharing service, Honig, now 29, told his friend, “You’re nuts! It’s not going to work.” But within one year the pair had launched WaiveCar, a service which allows users to locate a nearby electric…
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The Schmooze Meet Anthony Rapp, The Actor Accusing Kevin Spacey of Childhood Sexual Assault
Last night, Buzzfeed News published an exclusive report detailing an alleged childhood sexual assault on actor Anthony Rapp by Kevin Spacey. Spacey, a two-time Oscar winner and current star of “House of Cards,” said last night that he doesn’t remember the interaction with the then 14 year-old boy, but apologized “for what would have been…
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The Schmooze ‘We Fell In Love Before We’d Even Really Held Hands’: Mandy Moore Met Her Jewish Fiancé On Instagram
It was September 2015 and Amanda Leigh Moore was sad. Her career was stalled. She was separating from her husband Ryan Adams, who would later come out with an album about their relationship entitled, “Prisoner.” Her Instagram was mostly pictures of small animals and humorous Ryan Gosling memes referencing astrology. But! There was a song…
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The Schmooze You Don’t Want To Know How Much Money Paul Newman’s Rolex Just Sold For
What is a 1968 Cosmograph Daytona – Reference Number 6239? A car model? A declassified CIA file? The working title for a 2045 Bond film that will star the little boy from “Room”? In some sense, a 1968 Cosmograph Daytona – Reference Number 6239 is anything we want it to be. In another more accurate…
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The Schmooze Jews, Witches, and Sorcery: The Remarkable Tradition That Is Still Practiced Today
“Rabbi,” asks a man in that evergreen Jewish fairytale film “Fiddler on the Roof”: “Is there a proper blessing for the tzar?” It’s late October, and Jews leery of Halloween and its pagan origins may be wondering if there is a ritual saying for a witch. There is a curse, actually, written up neatly in…
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