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 Zac Efron Gives The World The Gift Of His Pole Dancing
Breaking from the pornographic displays of egoism and prefab-anecdote exchange that are the usual order of the day on celebrity talkshows, “The Graham Norton Show” stumbled across real talent this week. On the press circuit for his new “Baywatch” remake, actor Zac Efron demonstrated that pole dancing is another of his unlikely ways into America’s…
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The Schmooze A Doctor Spectacularly Destroys Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Claims
Gwyneth Paltrow has been called a lot of things: Oscar winner, wellness guru, conscious uncoupler. But now she’s being called…out. In an article on her blog titled, “Dear Gwyneth Paltrow, we’re not f**king with you we’re correcting you, XOXO Science”, Dr. Jen Gunter addressed Paltrow in a now viral open letter. Gunter, an OBGYN and…
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The Schmooze ‘Broad City’ Just Dropped Season 4 Trailer
Let us turn in the ecstasy of thanksgiving to the Reform Jewish liturgy: In a world torn by violence and pain, a world far from wholeness and peace, a world waiting still to be redeemed, give us, oh Lord, a chance to say: YAAAAAAAAS QUEEN to the new trailer for “Broad City” Season 4. Abby…
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Fast Forward Meet The Jewish Artist Who Was The First Woman To Draw ‘Wonder Woman’
Maybe one day they will say that behind every “great woman” there has to be countless stories of other great women who supported them. And behind the icon of great womanhood “Wonder Woman” is the legendary cartoonist Trina Robbins. Robbins, 78, has made a career of shading in the colorful histories of unsung female heroes….
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The Schmooze Will The First Black Bachelorette Choose A Jewish Hubby?
The television show “The Bachelorette” appears to be some kind of voluntary human sex zoo that I assume can be legally televised due to a judicial loophole. I had never seen it before because I believe true reality entertainment lies in watching Youtube personalities cry while applying makeup. But I willingly swiped my B-card in…
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The Schmooze Everything You Need to Know About Ivanka and Jared’s Shavuot
Fidget spinners, Raybans, and Joshua Kushner’s forearms were all on glorious display during the Kushner-Trump family’s trip to Shavuot services yesterday. Here’s what we know: -The Holiday: Shavuot celebrates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, as well as the harvest season, which in ancient times meant bringing sacrifices to the Temple in Jerusalem….
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The Schmooze Zac Efron Struggles To Become A Man In New ‘Baywatch’ Movie
What’s wrong with being a man right now? Not much, unless you have conflicted feelings about wars (propagated now and ever mostly by men), murderers (the vast majority also male), and man buns (no further explanation required). Zac Efron is here to change all this. The 29-year old actor co-stars with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson…
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Fast Forward Joaquin Phoenix And Rooney Mara Are Dating — And It’s Fine
As far as the endless jigsaw puzzle of beautiful Hollywood actors and the ways they can fit together goes, this one is fine. Joaquin Phoenix, accepting the award for Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for his work in “You Were Never Really Here” debuted as a couple this week with Rooney Mara, best…
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