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 Let’s Use Hugh Hefner’s Death As An Opportunity To Remember Gloria Steinem’s Heroic Feminism
Hugh Hefner. Once he was alive, but now he is dead. Was he a visionary, or a pajama-wearing caveman? A misogynist prick, or a champion of female sexuality? This column does not exist to get to the bottom of any of those questions. It exists to celebrate the fact that Hugh Hefner was not Jewish,…
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The Schmooze The New Season of ‘Transparent’ Is Full Of Palestinian Propaganda — And That’s Not Necessarily A Bad Thing
The oddest moment of my Birthright trip occurred during a trip to Har Hertzl, Israel’s national cemetery. After encouraging us to lay stones on the graves of Meir and Rabin, our guide paused for his main performance at the grave of Max Steinberg, the lone American soldier who was moved to make aliya and serve…
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The Schmooze A General Kelly Parody Account Insulted Barbra Streisand On Twitter And Now They’re Flirting
When General John Kelly says jump, you say “how high?” And when a General John Kelly parody account asks you to update your Twitter picture, you do it. Barbra Streisand did, and she’s better than any of us. The golden goddess and tireless democrat was harassed by a John Kelly parody Twitter account on Friday….
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The Schmooze Madonna And The Fat Jew Prove Jews Are Doing A Bad Job Of Controlling The Media
Jews, let’s talk. This “controlling the media” thing is not going well. It is all very nice and good to get some of the most powerful jobs in our nation’s government, but it really only counts if you don’t also use your power to help defend Nazis. It is a true kiddush hashem to invent…
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The Schmooze New ‘Pitch Perfect’ Trailer Is Here, But Ben Platt Is Nowhere To Be Seen
Long has a cappella asked: do people want to hear 13 people with no instruments perform a song made famous by one person with instruments? Today, the trailer for the third movie in the “Pitch Perfect” franchise answers once again, “Kind of!…If the people are hot and the voices are auto-tuned.” The third and final…
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The Schmooze Conan O’Brien Says ‘Israelis Are The Best Looking People’
The last thing Israel needs is another over-confident white man who burns easily bopping about, trying to fix things. We don’t even know what to do with the Jared Kushner we have. Nevertheless, Conan O’Brien, entertainment’s most irrationally successful ginger, took it upon himself to visit Israel earlier this summer. The episode drops tonight during…
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The Schmooze Ivanka Trump Doesn’t Know What The Word ‘Otherwise’ Means
Yesterday, Ivanka Trump found time in her busy schedule of explaining how she has no obligation to be moral and her work helping to end equal pay efforts, to throw subtle shade at her baby nephew. Cuddling my little nephew Luke… the best part of an otherwise incredible day! pic.twitter.com/8Ci5SD1VJ8 — Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) September…
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The Schmooze 10 Things We Love About Mayim Bialik’s Rosh Hashanah Video
Uvshavtem mayim b’sason mimaynei hayeshua — joyfully, Mayim Bialik has once again visited the fountains of triumph and showered us with the sweet, sweet waters of Jewish tradition! Hallelu. Here are our top ten (there were hundreds) favorite things about her new video, “4 Things Jews Do On Rosh Hashanah”: 1.She always seems kind of…
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