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 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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The Schmooze Dear Kristen Bell’s Husband, Your ‘Measletov’ Pun Is Anti-Semitic
Measles, a disease that had been considered “eliminated,” is at a 25-year-high for numbers of infections in a calendar year in the US. Over half of the reported cases in the past year belong to Hasidic Jews. This is a delicate moment for all Jews, who are also facing a rise in anti-Semitism. Ultra-Orthodox Jews…
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The Schmooze Israelis Prove Immune To Charm Of Kim Kardashian
Israeli consumers have thrown shade at sunglasses that Kim Kardashian made in partnership with the Israeli brand Carolina Lemke. Americans, Haaretz reports, purchased the Kardashian-designed shades but rejected other products from Carolina Lemke, an arm of the major Israeli fast-fashion company Castro. But Israelis have continued to buy Carolina Lemke shades, but rejected the glasses…
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The Schmooze Celebs Do Dramatic Reading Of Mueller Report, In Vain Attempt To Get You To Read It
Like a tired parent airplane-ing a spoonful of mashed peas into a reticent toddler’s mouth, a group of bleeding-heart celebrities is determined to spoon-feed the contents of the Mueller Report to the American public. Led by Rob Reiner, a troupe of reasonably famous faces collaborated with “Now This,” the group that makes those highly produced…
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The Schmooze We Watched Adam Sandler’s Netflix ‘Murder Mystery’ For You
Jews have a proud history in entertainment — Sarah Bernhardt, Molly Picon, Mel Brooks, Barbra Streisand — what a source of gladness and pride for our community! We could watch, read, and listen for 100 years, and still not have canvassed the extraordinary ever-growing legacy of Jews entertaining America. And yet we still found time…
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The Schmooze The AOC ‘Concentration Camp’ Debate Has Jews Divided. 18 Jews Weigh In.
Question: When is it appropriate to describe a detention center for immigrants as a concentration camp? Meta-question: Millions of Americans, including intellectuals, politicians, and religious leaders, are engaging in this discussion — what does that tell us about America? A fervent, raging discourse on this topic of naming immigrant and refugee detention camps has exploded…
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