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 Could “Friends! The Musical” BE More Jewish? Yes, Here Are 7 Ways
When the cultural icon “Friends” arrived on Netflix in its full, 10 season glory, 20 and 30-somethings everyone threw down their saplings and ran to greet it like a shiny-haired messiah. Marathon-watchings ensued — no longer were we Friend-less and alone, or forced to pull scratched DVDs from their box sets — we were reunited…
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The Schmooze 8 Inspiring Lessons We Learned from Sheryl Sandberg’s Grief Manifesto
Sheryl Sandberg, famously controversial for inventing the concept “lean in” has, at 47, become the expert of another topic: grief. Sandberg, COO of Facebook, suffered a crushing loss when her husband Dave Goldberg collapsed on vacation in May 2015 and died shortly after of heart failure. Scenes from Sandberg’s family’s horror — Goldberg collapsed on…
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The Schmooze Pour One Out For Passover: A Drinking Game to Get You Through Seder
Whether you are a Napa Valley-native or tend to fall on the Charles Shaw side of things, the Four Cups of Wine demanded by Seder can be daunting. Interspersed unevenly through the night, sickly sweet, broken up by appetizers that are basically clumps of weeds dipped in a saline rinse — the Four Cups can…
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The Schmooze Amy Schumer Hits Back At Body Haters With Defiant Bikini Pics
Amy Schumer isn’t here to be shamed. The actress and comedian, who is featured on the cover of InStyle magazine’s May “Beauty” issue, responded to body-shamers with a series of Instagram bikini shots. “I feel great,” she wrote. “No haters can f with my baseline.” The comedian posted the pictures largely in response to swimsuit…
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The Schmooze Julia Louis-Dreyfus Tapped By ‘Top Democrats’ To Run For Office
“Veep” star Julia Louis-Dreyfus may play a lawmaker on TV — but she hopes to keep her political activity strictly extracurricular. The actress told The Washington Post that she has been approached by “top Democrats” with requests to run for office. She’s also gotten some pleas from within her immediate family. “My father keeps saying,…
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The Schmooze 10 Reasons To Love Rachel Bloom On Her 30th Birthday
30 years ago a child was born unto Southern California who would change the way people view women, Judaism, mental health, and television. Her rise ushered in a messianic age in which a not-conventionally thin Ashkenazi woman can star as both a sex symbol and a comedy icon in her very own musical television show….
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The Schmooze Mayim Bialik’s Passover Plan Is Insanely Organized
Fresh off last week’s viral video takedown of men who call adult women “girls,” “The Big Bang Theory” star and Ph.D. neuroscientist Mayim Bialik gave the world another lesson yesterday — the importance of planning for Passover with military precision and rainbow sticky notes. Her schedule, which resembles a fully diagramed LSAT logic problem, includes…
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The Schmooze These 8 Jewish Actresses Need To Play Barbie In New Live-Action Movie
A loud-mouthed, curvy Jewish comedian playing Barbie? Like the first woman president, it was just too good to be true this time around. Comedian, actress, and role model Amy Schumer has pulled out of Sony’s live-action Barbie movie earlier this week due to “scheduling conflicts.” “I’m bummed,” said Schumer, who was slated to re-work part…
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