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 10 Wild Facts About Marianne Williamson, Self-Help Guru And Dem 2020 Candidate
The list of candidates running for the Democratic nomination for the 2020 presidential election is a who’s who of the Democratic party — and in a more literal sense, a (squints) wait, who’s that? On Thursday night, a second ensemble of 2020 Dem hopefuls will take the stage to discuss policy and grandstand on their…
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The Schmooze Elizabeth Banks’ ‘Charlie’s Angels’ Trailer Is Here
“Charlie’s Angels” was a 70’s-era TV show about three beautiful women who leverage their smarts and sexualities to fight crime, doing the bidding of an invisible and omnipotent male boss, named Charlie. Over forty years later, can “Charlie’s Angels” ever be strong enough to rip themselves free of the bonds of the patriarchy? That is,…
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The Schmooze Women Refused To Talk About ‘Barstool Sports’, Fearing Rape Threats
There’s a beloved cultural joke that Jews are nowhere in sports — but that’s not true. You don’t have to look back as far as Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg. We brought the world the last Super Bowl MVP, Julian Edelman. Olympian Aly Raisman is one of the finest athletes in the world. And this…
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The Schmooze ‘The Office’ Will Leave Netflix, But Not Before We Remind You How Jewish It Is
American mental health entered an unofficial state of crisis on Tuesday when it was announced that the sitcom “The Office” will be leaving the streaming service Netflix. The nine-season NBC mockumentary, based on the British show of the same name, went off the air in 2013. But the comedy, about a paper supply company in…
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The Schmooze No, Rosanna Arquette Isn’t Anti-Semitic — But You Might Be
A tempest in the tiniest, Trump-steeped teapot has broken out on Twitter — actress Rosanna Arquette has been accused of anti-Semitism. The 59-year-old actress came under digital fire for suggesting that Jewish people should consider themselves particularly responsible for giving aid to children trapped in inhumane detention centers. In a tweet that was deleted shortly…
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The Schmooze It’s Bourdain Day — Here’s How To Celebrate
June 25, 2019 would have been Anthony Bourdain’s 63rd birthday. The celebrated chef and adventurer, who occupied a place as a kind of poet laureate of international cuisine, died just over a year ago. Bourdain, who had been open about his struggle with addiction and depression, killed himself in June 2018 while in France, shooting…
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The Schmooze Every Exhausting Detail Of Karlie Kloss And Joshua Kushner’s Second Wedding
Let us not to the marriage of true multi-hyphenates admit impediment, Shakespeare wrote, kind of. Super model-turned-reality-TV-host-and-philanthropic-feminist-coding-star Karlie Kloss married real-estate-scion-venture-capitalist Joshua Kushner, eight months ago. This weekend, perhaps as an elaborate means of avoiding questions about their procreation schedule, they got married again. In October 2018, 26-year-old Kloss and 33-year-old Kushner (of those Kushners)…
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The Schmooze Jill Soloway Replaces Accused Serial Rapist Bryan Singer On ‘Red Sonja’
Director and producer Bryan Singer, whose work you may know from many of the recent “X-Men” movies, was all set to direct another likely box office smash. “Red Sonja,” the film adaptation of a 1970s-era comic book of the same name, centers an otherworldly warrior woman whose backstory includes surviving rape. Singer was under contract…
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