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 In Wild Tell-All, Anjelica Huston Dishes On Woody Allen, Roman Polanski
The most shocking part of Anjelica Huston’s tell-all interview with Vulture in advance of her newest movie, “John Wick: Chapter 3,” has to be her describing every A-lister from her past and how much cocaine they did. Or, no — it’s when she says Oprah blew her off at a party. No, even better is…
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The Schmooze Cynthia Nixon Calls Out ‘Sex And The City’ Failings: Race, Feminism and Money
Cynthia Nixon is being — yeah, we’ll say it — such a Miranda. In a candid conversation with Indiewire before the Tribecca Film Festival premiere of “Stray Dolls,” her new movie about human trafficking, Nixon put forth a pop culture graduate thesis. Apparently off the cuff, Nixon argued that the failures of HBO smash hit…
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The Schmooze Attention, This Israeli Man Is Becoming Famous For ‘Hand-Farting’ Hit Songs
[Hand fart to the tune of “We Didn’t Start the Fire”] Bella Abzug, Karl Marx, Jerry Seinfeld, Bend the Arc Amy Schumer, Charles Schumer, Rachel Hannah Weisz! Karlie Kloss, Jeff Goldblum, Theodore Hertzl, Emmy Rossum Roseanne, Al Franken, Netta Barzilai! None of them started hand-farting! Though it was always there, They didn’t care. None of…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman To Critics: Vegans Aren’t Annoying, You’re Annoying.
Vegans are so annoying, right? Sorry insecure carnivores, longtime vegan Natalie Portman has the perfect counter for you: “Lots of people make fun of anybody who cares about anything deeply, right?” Portman asked a group of 16,000 high school students in California. “I’m here to say, it is always a great thing to care…to have…
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The Schmooze From Julian Edelman To Deborah Lipstadt, Twitter Reacts To The Poway Synagogue Shooting
Another shooting in America. Another attack at a synagogue. Another day of mourning for the Jewish people and our allies. On Twitter, thinkers, celebrities, and other public figures reflected on the loss of Lori Gilbert-Kaye, the suffering and trauma of the injured and the rest of the survivors, and the question — Where does America…
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Opinion The Happiest News Of The Jewish Week: World Seders, Jewish Superheroes, Yiddish Rockstars
It’s like a normal Friday times seven (or eight) — Passover is almost over! Take a slug of wine, count your blessings and your Omer, and celebrate the happiest news stories this Jewish week. It’s spring, it’s the season of redemption, and Natalie Portman showed up at the “Avengers: Endgame” premiere — that, my friends,…
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The Schmooze Watch: Israel Has The Best ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Fans (No Spoilers!)
Step aside, Marvel Studios fans in Los Angeles, Seoul, and London…Israelis displayed this week that they are the definitive fans of the fictional fantasia about beautiful young heroes who come together from diverse backgrounds to avenge the mass murder of millions. At a showing of “Avengers: Endgame” in Kfar Saba, a city in central Israel,…
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The Schmooze Bari Weiss Dated Kate McKinnon, But Doesn’t Want ‘Political Points’ For Her Sexual Identity
Bari Weiss, the New York Times columnist famous for being a Jewish woman who does not want any more rights than she currently has, dated Saturday Night Live comedian Kate McKinnon when they were both undergraduates at Columbia University. The provocative writer said in a Vanity Fair profile what had only been previously rumored —…
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