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 Gwyneth Paltrow Learned The Hard Way Not To Mess With NASA
Gwyneth Paltrow has made a career transition out of acting into professionally unsettling people with unsubstantiated health claims on her lifestyle site, Goop. Since 2008, Paltrow has inspired an angry army, from doctors who have debunked her claims to regular denizens of the internet who just don’t want an actress-turned-mogul to encourage them to steam…
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Fast Forward Haim Sisters Release A New Song AND Cover ‘Man I Feel Like A Woman’
The three sisters of the band Haim claimed our hearts in 2013 with “The Wire”, a song that unapologetically rejoices over the freeing feeling the end of a relationship brings. Now the sisters, whose swingy hair and rock star attitudes make them look like a trio of apparitions sent to save teenage girls from the…
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The Schmooze Jonah Hill’s Weight Loss Is Making People Emotional
Here at The Schmooze we are open-opportunity objectifiers: male or female, fat or thin, young or old, born Jew or convert, we do not discriminate when it comes to investigating the lives and opinions of Jews in pop culture. We will judge everyone equally, but we will judge everyone. So when actor and comedian Jonah…
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The Schmooze Comedian Jenny Slate Calls Ivanka Trump A ‘Fake Feminist’
If Scarlett Johansson is the Jewish actress we use to stick it to the goys, and Natalie Portman is the Jewish actress we use to represent us to the goys, then Jenny Slate is the Jewish actress we use to help us love ourselves. Slate is a comedian who spent one season on “Saturday Night…
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The Schmooze The Best Jewish Camp Movies To Watch This Summer
The founders of the first American Jewish summer camps imagined that camp could be an opportunity for Jewish city kids to breath country air and for Eastern European immigrant children to assimilate. They could not have anticipated that their creations would become populous sylvan gatherings where young people set things on fire, avail themselves of…
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The Schmooze Emmy Rossum Reveals Her Biggest Ally For Equal Pay On ‘Shameless’
At a roundtable discussion of female Hollywood luminaries this week, actress Emmy Rossum discussed the negotiations that ensued when she asked for a raise after being paid less than her co-star William H. Macy for seven seasons of the show “Shameless”. Famously, Rossum and her team eventually received an offer for equal pay to Macy,…
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Fast Forward Dos Equis’ ‘The Most Interesting Man In The World’ Now Sells Tequila
Following in the footsteps of the Verizon guy who jumped ship to promote Sprint, Dos Equis’ “The Most Interesting Man In The World” has moved on from beer to tequila. Jonathan Goldsmith, the man who launched a thousand memes as Dos Equis beer’s “The Most Interesting Man In The World”, once worked to make an…
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The Schmooze Elizabeth Banks Calls Steven Spielberg For Poor Record Of Casting Female Leads
Elizabeth Banks, the actress-producer-director phenom who broke box office records as director of the second “Pitch Perfect” movie, criticized director Steven Spielberg this week for his refusal to make movies starring women. Collecting an award for women in filmmaking, Banks, who is known for her icy wit and multi-hyphenate talent, spoke about the importance of…
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