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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Opinion This Was A Week Of Jewish Blessings: Gay, Orthodox Ordination, An 80-Person B’nei Mitzvah, And A Spelling Bee
It was a huge week for world news: Robert Mueller celebrated an eerie last day of school, Israel made plans to hold a Groundhog Day-style election, and in the biggest upset, Guy Ritchie revealed impressive conversational Hebrew skills. Let’s get to the good stuff. Blessings: The world can be a dark and a dangerous place,…
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The Schmooze Guy Ritchie Made Israeli Media Interview Him About ‘Aladdin’ In Hebrew — He’s Good!
Grinning impishly, “Aladdin” director Guy Ritchie told the Israeli reporter that his Hebrew is only “kacha-kacha” — so-so. And yet Ritchie — and the very patient Israeli journalist speaking to him about the premiere of Disney’s “Aladdin” — conducted their conversation solely in Hebrew. “My wife — she speaks Hebrew,” Ritchie slowly recited for Ynet…
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The Schmooze Amy Heckerling’s Daughter Defends ‘Consensual’ Chris Kattan Relationship, Blames Lorne Michaels
Update: This article has been updated to include a quote from a spokesperson for Saturday Night Live. Mollie Heckerling, daughter of writer-director Amy Heckerling, has spoken out against claims made by Chris Kattan that framed her mother as having been sexually predatory in a work environment. Kattan, a longtime Saturday Night Live actor, wrote in…
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The Schmooze Harrison Ford To Chris Pratt: Get Lost, ‘Indiana Jones’ Dies When I Do.
Movie star Chris Pratt will play the role of Indiana Jones over Harrison Ford’s chiseled, tanned, sweaty dead body, Ford says. Sorry — where were were? Legendary actor, woodworker, and recalcitrant matinee idol Harrison Ford has spoken: You shall have no other Indiana Jones’s but him. Appearing on The Today Show, the 76-year-old was asked…
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The Schmooze Chris Kattan’s #MeToo: Comedian Says Lorne Michaels Pressured Him To Sleep With Female Boss
Saturday Night Live comedian Chris Kattan says that famed SNL show-runner Lorne Michaels pressured him to engage in sex for the sake of a business deal. In “Baby Don’t Hurt Me: Stories and Scars from Saturday Night Live,” Kattan writes that during production for “Night At The Roxbury,” the 1998 movie starring Kattan and Will…
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Life ‘Take My Mom…Please’ He’ll Pay $10K If You Find His Mom A Jewish Suitor
Marc Guss is a businessman. He lives on the Upper East Side, with his wife and their Shih Tzu Bichon, Belle. And he’s sick and tired of men on dating sites. “The clientele,” he says. “They’re just not there. I was floored to see the disrespect and apathy.” There are always more women than men,…
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Opinion Good News For The Jews This Week: Boozing, And Breaking The Glass Ceiling
Great news: the air is warm, it’s the season of low-commitment Jewish holidays, and Shabbat is here. Let’s recap the good Jewish news of the week — because there is good news every week, if only we know where to look for it. If you have a tip for a Jewish news story that brought…
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The Schmooze Watch Out, ‘Shtisel’! Netflix Is Making A Partially Yiddish Show About Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Okay, I’m going to need all the rabid fans of the Israeli TV drama ‘Shtisel’ to sit down. If you’re holding a mug of tea or an Etgar Keret collection, set it somewhere safe. If you think good news surrounding prestige TV about ultra-Orthodox Jews might inspire you to loot and riot your neighborhood, lock…
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