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 The New ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Movie Cast Is Basically Just Jews
It’s as if Hogwarts’ sole confirmed Jewish wizard Anthony Goldstein opened a vanishing cabinet somewhere — Jewish actors and characters are streaming into the new “Harry Potter” spinoff movie faster than you can say “it pretty much makes sense that not every single magical person in history celebrated Christmas.” Casting announcements for the new “Fantastic…
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The Schmooze Lin-Manuel Miranda And Stephen Sondheim Dropped A Puerto Rico Benefit Song You Can Dance To
Why do we fantasize about life during the galactic civil war in a galaxy far away? Would it really be worth it to live under the fascist Sith regime, just for the chance to train with Yoda and marshall the force? Yes. And why do so many of us harbor dreams of receiving our Hogwarts…
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The Schmooze A Crazy Fan Theory About Pinkwashing In ‘Transparent’ That Went Too Far
Jill Soloway’s groundbreaking “Transparent” is a masterpiece in an era when being superlative is, oddly, the rule. With television like “Transparent” it is incumbent upon the audience to accept our mantle as participants in high art and ignore fears about venerating work that is in the same artistic genre as the new “Big Bang Theory”…
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The Schmooze Harrison Ford Punched Ryan Gosling and Forgot His Name
Even the aesthetically punitive backdrop of the “Graham Norton Show” could not ruin the sight of two of the world’s hotter men sitting side by side: Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling promoted their new movie, “Blade Runner 2049” on the talkshow’s most recent episode to great comic effect. The two men, interviewed by Norton and…
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The Schmooze Gal Gadot’s Greatest Fear About Hosting SNL Is ‘To Speak Like A Dummy’
Gal Gadot, the “Wonder Woman” actress who is currently the front-runner for “Best Thing To Happen to America in the 2010s,” will host “Saturday Night Live” on October 7. Though some feel this strongly indicates that we have all been inscribed for blessing in the book of life, Gadot isn’t so sure. On Sunday, during…
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The Schmooze Shalom, ‘30 Rock’! We Rank The Show’s Jewish One-Liners As It Leaves Netflix
Who by fire? And who by water? Who by sword? And who by no deal getting made between Netflix and NBC executives? “30 Rock,” one of the human race’s best ever efforts, is leaving Netflix on October 1st and heading to Hulu. Here is our ranking of the top Jewish lines from the show, before…
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Life Where Is America’s Priciest Yom Kippur Service?
How much will a synagogue seat this High Holidays season run you? Quite a lot, in some cities. Curious about the exact numbers, we did a survey of some of the most expensive synagogue sanctuary seats in New York City, comparing price tags according to numbers posted online and those given by synagogue receptionists. The…
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The Schmooze Should We Forgive Meghan Markle For Not Being Jewish?
It was May 2017 and Jews were poised for official takeover. Sure, we’d been having a bit of a problem with people defacing our cemeteries. Anti-semitism was on the rise in Europe, but when is it not, honestly? And some of us were beginning to suspect that our nation’s president was hiring people who did…
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