Jenny Singer is a freelance writer and a former Forward staff writer. She writes a weekly Substack about living with anxiety, called “Uneasy Going.”
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By Jenny Singer
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The Schmooze Director Rachel Chavkin Brings Down House At The Tony’s With Call For Diversity
It’s time you learned the name Rachel Chavkin. She’s promising to have your back as you walk through hell. On Sunday night, Chavkin nabbed the Tony Award for Best Director in a Musical for her work on Broadway’s “Hadestown.” The director, who previously received a nod for “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,”…
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Opinion Great News For Jews This Week: Cancer Breakthrough, Teen Holocaust Educator, And Neil Patrick Harris
It was another week in the Jewish world with both more blessings and more pain than we know what to do with. Here are just a few of the gems from the week — stories of Jews and allies who repaired tiny fractures in the world. Good news: It happens, too! Teachers: Claire Sarnowski, a…
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The Schmooze Come One, Come All: Katz’s Deli To Hold (Fake) Orgasm Contest For ‘When Harry Met Sally’ 30th
It could have been called “When Sex Met Deli Food”. Thirty years ago this July, a nearly perfect romantic comedy was released. “When Harry Met Sally” hit theaters July 12, 1989, and it combined all good things in the world — writer Nora Ephron’s wit, Central Park in the fall, Billy Crystal in a sweater,…
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The Schmooze ‘Washed Up Psycho’: Trump and Bette Midler Trade Barbs On Twitter
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few,” George Washington said. Taking a slightly different tack, President Donald Trump tweeted on Tuesday to admonish performer Bette Midler for attributing a fake quote to the president. “Washed up psycho @BetteMidler was forced to apologize for a statement she attributed to me that turned out to be…
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The Schmooze What Can We Learn From The Jewish Millennials Who Moved In With Nuns?
Housing prices are astronomical, belief in God is bottoming out, and America seems to have settled into an age of anxiety. Time we get to a nunnery? The New York Times recently ran a story about a group of millennial activists in the Bay Area who moved in with a group of nuns. The project,…
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The Schmooze Adam Sandler Begging Adam Levine To Perform At His Kid’s Bat Mitzvah Party Is Every Parent
The two most powerful Adams since Adam joined forces to welcome a new Jewish woman to the covenant — pop star Adam Levine performed at Adam Sandler’s daughter’s bat mitzvah party. The man who brought us “Hanukkah Songs” one-through-infinity called upon Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine to perform at his daughter’s party, he told Jimmy…
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Books Shavuot, The Jewish Festival Of Sex, Books And Cheese Is Upon Us. Let’s Rage.
The ancient harvest festival of Shavuot, which begins this Saturday at sunset, is an all-night bacchanal of reading, arguing, and cheese. It’s a celebration of a lot of things: the grain harvest season, God’s giving of the Torah to the people of Israel, and the right to eat dairy. On Shavuot, we read the Book…
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The Schmooze Jenny Mollens Got Bat Mitzvahed At The Western Wall, In A Shawl Embroidered With Her Dog’s Name
Today, in news our ancestors couldn’t have dreamed of: Jewish comedian Jenny Mollen approached the mixed-gender prayer space at the Western Wall, holding a Torah and wearing a sheer tallis-like shawl, embroidered with the name of her deceased dog, “Teets.” It was her 40th birthday, and she was having her bat mitzvah. View this post…
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