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 Quiz: Do You Really Know Yiddish Slang?
Unless you’re living under a rock that is somehow impervious to think pieces, you know that we are now living in the “Golden Age of Television”. If you watched the Tony awards Sunday night you heard one winner’s victorious announcement that this is a “Golden Age of American playwrighting”. And if you have been to…
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The Schmooze Why Barbra Streisand Is Still The Definitive ‘Hello Dolly!’
Strip off your Sunday clothes and slip into your sparring outfit—the Tony Awards are over for the year and it’s time to set the record straight. Sunday night, a very nice-seeming Jewish lady by the name of Bette Midler accepted the Tony award for Best Actress in a Broadway Musical with a speech that was…
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The Schmooze 6 Takeaways From Amanda Bynes’ First Interview In Four Years
Returning to the public eye for the first time after a breakdown that was as horrifying as it was well-documented is hard enough without being forced to rate pictures of yourself on television. But that’s what happened to Amanda Bynes. The former child star was badgered by questions about her vagina and asked to rate…
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The Schmooze Jewish Stars Write Love Letters To The LGBTQ Community
June is Gay Pride Month, and to celebrate 30 days of love, Billboard asked dozens of beloved celebrities to pen ‘love letters’ addressed to the LGBTQ community. Read on for selections from well deserved letters by Jewish stars to their LGBTQ communities and fans. Read all the letters here. From Babs to Adam Lambert they…
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The Schmooze New Biography Explores Bob Dylan’s Spiritual Journey
“Bob Dylan was born a Jew. Then he wasn’t, but now he’s back,” sang Adam Sandler in The Chanukah Song, voicing all of our dads’ anxieties over Dylan’s religious identity. A new biography “Bob Dylan: A Spiritual Life” by Scott Marshall, aims to explore Dylan’s spiritual odyssey. Out on June 20th, Marshall’s book promises to…
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The Schmooze Courtney Love Calls Activist Linda Sarsour An ‘Anti-Semitic Terrorist” On Twitter
Sponsored by The Coalition To Make Feminist Anxiety Nightmares Real (probably), rock icon Courtney Love and activist Linda Sarsour engaged in a furious Twitter battle yesterday. “I won’t follow anything thats being led by an anti-Semetic terrorist that’s using feminism as a tool to promote her radicalism,” Love tweeted. unfollowed. I won’t follow anything thats…
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The Schmooze Lauren Graham Says There’s ‘No Reason’ For More ‘Gilmore Girls’
Should Amy Sherman-Palladino’s “Gilmore Girls” series once again be revived, we humbly suggest these series titles: “Gilmore Grandchildren.” “Geriatric Girls.” “Gilmore Graves.” The show’s star Lauren Graham says she doesn’t see the point. “Just as an experience, it was kind of perfect,” she told Indiewire, referring to the massively successful four-part Netflix revival that aired…
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The Schmooze Gal Gadot Won’t Wear Heels on the ‘Wonder Woman’ Red Carpet
When it comes to beauty, the saying holds true: No pain, no gain. No pain, no gain, in the beautiful pursuit of decimating the patriarchy, that is. Gal Gadot, currently the star of ‘Wonder Woman’ as well as every human’s private fantasy life, is refusing to wear high heels during her “Wonder Woman” press tour….
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