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 Comedians Chelsea Peretti and Jordan Peele Welcome The World’s Funniest Baby
The extremely bashert couple “Brooklyn 99” star Chelsea Peretti and “Get Out” creator Jordan Peele have welcomed their first child. The bravely-named Beaumont Gino Peele was born July 1st, but the couple, who eloped last year with only a dog for a witness, announced the birth today. With a comedy pedigree that includes half of…
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The Schmooze How Grief Led A Broadway Actress To Pen A Sequel To ‘Fiddler On The Roof’
There are some mysteries within Judaism so profound that we may solve them in only the World To Come. How can we believe in a God we cannot see? Will there ever be true peace in the Middle East? And what the hell happens to the characters in “Fiddler On The Roof” after the musical…
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The Schmooze Watch Ben Stiller, Lea Michele, and Israeli Kids Sing Clips From ‘Hamilton’
Ham isn’t kosher but Lin Manuel Miranda’s online immigrant reform fundraising competition “#HAM4ALL” sure is. Asking fans to “post a video of yourself singing any Hamilton song”, the creator of Hamilton is soliciting donations as small as $10 for entries to win VIP treatment for two to the smash show’s Los Angeles opening. “We’ve raised…
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The Schmooze Who Is Ansel Elgort And Does He Deserve Our Love?
Wise men say only fools rush in, but I can’t help falling in love with Ansel Elgort while simultaneously wanting to destroy him. How did this happen to me? Meet Ansel Elgort, the 23 year-old star of Edgar Wright’s summer car-chase spectacular “Baby Driver”. He is an actor, singer, and dancer. He is a composer…
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The Schmooze ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Will Return In October After Five Year Hiatus
He left…he did nothing…he returned. Cue the vaguely Italian clown music—”Curb Your Enthusiasm” is coming. Living legend/typical bus stop lunatic Larry David returns to HBO on October 1st with the long anticipated 9th season of his show. After a five year hiatus in which it feels safe to assume that the fictional David burned down…
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The Schmooze 22 Tweets That Sum Up Your Jewish Summer Camp Experience
In my final year at Jewish summer camp, a renegade Israeli counselor, fed up with the camp’s emphasis on safety and sensitivity, took my unit of teens into the woods and instructed us to drink water and then spit it into each others’ mouths. Then he read us “The Giving Tree”. Every person’s experience at…
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The Schmooze Happy National Kissing Day: The Schmooze Ranks Jewish Smooches
It’s International Kissing Day, and before you can say “that’s not a real holiday” remember that you belong to a religion that celebrates what amounts to a weekly holiday, a monthly holiday, and over a dozen annual holidays, including holidays that basically exist to keep track of other holidays (hi, Lag Ba’omer). In honor of…
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The Schmooze Emily Ratajkowski’s Big Boobs Are Holding Her Back Professionally
In a confession that will resonate with all people who have ever failed to get a job they wanted, actress and model Emily Ratajkowski announced that people do not want to work with her because she is “too sexy.” The 26-year-old, who is best known for dancing in the music video for Robin Thicke’s politically…
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