Jenny Singer is a freelance writer with pieces in Vox, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and more. She was previously a staff writer at Glamour and the Forward, and she’s currently getting an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa.
Jenny Singer
By Jenny Singer
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The Schmooze Wikileaks Accuses Seth Rogen Of Collaborating With Obama To ‘Force Regime Change In North Korea’
Jews really do control everything. According to an Alternet article bizarrely tweeted by Wikileaks on Wednesday night, various Jews, President Obama, and the CIA hatched a secret, ultimately failed plot to replace the current leadership of North Korea. Leaked emails reveal how Sony, Obama, Seth Rogen and the CIA Secretly Planned to Force Regime Change…
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The Schmooze Zach Braff Thinks He Looks Like The New “Bachelor.” He Doesn’t.
‘The Bachelor,” a live-sex TV show experts continue to believe may be a Zimbardo Prison-type social experiment turned unexpectedly lucrative, has cast its new leading man. Like bachelors of seasons past, the incoming Arie Luyendyk Jr. is a shark-eyed white with perpetually moist lips who shimmers slightly in direct lighting. You would pretend to be…
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The Schmooze Petition For Hurricane Irma To Be Renamed Hurricane Ivanka Gains Thousands Of Signatures
“In the eye of the hurricane there is quiet, for just a moment,” sings Lin Manuel Miranda’s titular character in the hit musical “Hamilton.” But in the “I” of the hurricane there is no quiet at all, just the deafening tapping of thousands of fingertips on keyboards signing an online petition to rename Hurricane Irma….
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The Schmooze Robert Lee IV Resigns From Church After Backlash, Says Fighting White Supremacy Is ‘Sacred Work’
Looking stoic in a black shirt and collar as he addressed the spangled audience at this year’s VMAs, Reverend Robert Lee IV gave a morally radical speech. It was unusual fare for the awards show, but it was especially surprising considering that Lee is a direct descendent of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee. “We…
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The Schmooze Happy National ‘Read A Book Day’! Here Is Our List Of The Top 10 New Jewish Classics
Your bookshelves are crammed with dogeared copies of “The Chosen,” and “The Exodus.” A paperback “Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret” sits beneath a stack of Phillip Roth novels, the very sight of which makes you sexually queasy. James Mischener’s “The Source,” spine un-cracked, serves as a bookend for Jennifer Weiner paperbacks. Today, September…
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Fast Forward Kim Kardashian Tweets Torah In Support Of DACA — Then Deletes It
Marco Rubio is quoting Matthew. Cher is calling on every celebrity to “Take a DREAMER In2 Their Home & Protect Them.” And Kim Kardashian West — reality star, beauty mogul and cultural icon recently dubbed “America’s new first lady” — tweeted a quote from the Good Book. The quote, which comes from a chapter in…
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The Schmooze A Jewish Couple Served Their Wedding Meal To Harvey Victims
Like raaaaaaain on your wedding day, postponing the happiest day of your life to make other people happy is a little bit ironic. But it didn’t feel that way to Dayna Skolkin and Josh Tillis, a Jewish couple who chose to serve the food from their rained-out Houston wedding to people who were affected by…
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The Schmooze It’s Been 10 Years And We’re Still Asking: Why Were There No Jews On ‘Gossip Girl’?
In “Gossip Girl,” The CW’s teen drama that aired 10 years ago this fall, Josh Schwartz created a circus of material excess with no parallel on television. Based on the series of novels of the same name by Cecily von Ziegesar, “Gossip Girl” chronicled lives of wealth and beauty, with a healthy dose of youth…
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