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 ‘Mean Girls’ Gets A Fetch Musical Adaptation
You can’t sit with “Mean Girls the Musical,” but you can buy tickets to the Washington, D.C. world premiere of the upcoming Broadway musical, starting this Friday. Rumblings about the musical have been about as loud as the stomach of a person doing a 72-hour cranberry juice cleanse, but unlike the “South Beach Fat Flush,”…
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The Schmooze Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson’s First Business Venture Was ‘The Jew-iest’
Abbi Jacobson is one of our favorite broads out there, but she wasn’t always known for her largesse. She told Wealthsimple last week that as an enterprising 8-year-old she bought pencils with NFL team logos and resold them at a local craft fair for five times the original cost. She ended up raking in the…
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The Schmooze WATCH: Trevor Noah Bids Bill O’Reilly The Ultimate Farewell
Shalom and see ya never, Bill O’Reilly. The Fox News host was ousted yesterday after a New York Times exposé revealed that the many sexual assault harassment cases filed against the TV host resulted in a total of $13 million settlements, split between Fox News and O’Reilly. You know, like the check at a steak…
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Fast Forward The Hottest Israeli Band You Don’t Know Just Dropped A New Single
It’s impossible not to fall in love with Jane Bordeaux. The Israeli band has become a wild success in their home country with their song “Eich Efshar” (“How is it possible..not to fall in love”) landing the most-played spot on Israel’s most popular radio stations last year. The gorgeous claymation music video for their song…
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Fast Forward The ‘Barefoot Contessa’ Reveals Why She Didn’t Have Children
Cooking show star Ina Garten is synonymous with home, hospitality, and nurturing with food. So why has she never had children? The “Barefoot Contessa” star and cookbook author lives in an idyllic East Hamptons home near the beach, and her loving relationship with husband Jeffrey is the stuff of fairytales. But what kind of fairytale…
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Fast Forward Larry David’s Daughter Created A Millennial ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
Can a person “win” a breakup? This is the question posed by Cazzie David (daughter of Larry) in her brand new web series, “Eighty-Sixed.” The first four episodes, co-written and directed by 23-year-old David, range from four to eight minutes, and have all been dropped on Youtube in the last two days. In them, we…
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The Schmooze The 6 Jews You Need To Follow On Instagram
Remember most of human history, when gazing at other people in admiration while rooting round through their belongings risked at least, a social interaction, at most, a restraining order? Now, thanks to Instagram, your insecurity can mingle with your morbid curiosity and your fantasies can flirt with your personal aesthetics, all at a party thrown…
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The Schmooze 7 Secrets Amy Schumer And Goldie Hawn Revealed On Their ‘Snatched’ Tour
Mother’s Day: a time to strew various things with sprigs of lavender, attend brunch, hastily order flowers, and (if you’re Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn) trek through South America forests, pursued by kidnappers. “Snatched,” (double entendre intended, we imagine) starring Schumer and Hawn, arrives in theaters on May 12th, just in time for Mother’s Day….
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