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 Watch Andy Borowitz Take Down Nazis In 45 Seconds
Andy Borowitz, the outspoken political humorist for the New Yorker, has something to say to American Nazis: Do better. At the New Yorker festival, he explained how Nazi quality, like so many other facets of America, has gone downhill. Enjoy it here: Here’s the full text: Five decades ago, we put a man on the…
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The Schmooze Howard Stern, Who Once Joked About Raping Teen Murder Victims, Condemns Harvey Weinstein
Howard Stern, who once suggested that the Columbine killers should have raped as many teenage girls as possible before murdering them, said on Wednesday that men who engage in sexual harassment are “freaks.” Speaking about Harvey Weinstein on “Jimmy Kimmel Live”, Stern said, “It’s unbelievable…this guy — it’s an unbelievable story — all these guys…
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The Schmooze Mayim Bialik Has Apologized For Her Sexual Assault Op-Ed
Mayim Bialik has issued a full apology for her op-ed last week in the New York Times that discussed sexual assault in light of the accusations against Harvey Weinstein. Bialik wrote about her personal experiences with sexism in Hollywood and seemed to suggest that women who strive for conventional beauty should expect to be sexually…
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The Schmooze Mayim Bialik Should Regret What She Said About Women — Not How It Was Perceived
Here at the Schmooze, the Forward’s pop-culture desk, our love affair with Mayim Bialik is an open secret. A child-star neuroscientist with a name out of a Sholem Aleichem story, whose lifestyle brand combines the best in feminism and Judaism? Surely this woman was sent by the Divine to be our blog-y bashert. It was…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman Gets The Role She Deserves In ‘Battle of the Sexes’
My beloved Sarah Silverman spoke and said unto me, ‘Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away, this is freaking HAPPENING.’ — Song of Songs 2:10 (Revised by The Schmooze Edition.) Sarah Silverman is one of the funniest people in the world, and yet she is almost always bad in movies. You’ve been…
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The Schmooze Sorry, Gal Gadot — It’s Time To Admit That Israeli Chocolate Is Disgusting
Israel: a land flowing with milk and honey or, more literally, a land filled with cranes and beautiful, shirtless youths. Israelis and Jewish Americans are immensely proud of Israel’s accomplishments, specifically its junk food, for good reason. We describe Bamba, Aroma ice cafe, and bagged “shoko” as food of the gods. But sometimes, enthusiasm for…
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The Schmooze The Jewish Celebrity Resistance Is Happening On Twitter
Jewish celebrities were out to slay this weekend. Not with fashion. Not with films. With angry, funny reactions to the week’s news stories. We cased Twitter for the bitterest, juiciest responses to the news cycle from the world’s beautiful and funny Jews and Jewesses. It was overwhelming. Jews on old-fashioned anti-semitism: Sarah Silverman kicking off…
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The Schmooze Gal Gadot’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ Episode Was Outrageously Sexist
Here is a list of every character Gal Gadot played this weekend as the host of “Saturday Night Live”: A 21 year-old model. A woman who is so oblivious she is tricked into dating OJ Simpson. A literal male fantasy. A fairytale princess. A sexy French criminal. A heterosexual woman who sexually experiments with other…
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