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 Yes, You Can And Should Bring Beyonce Into Your Seder
Just ten minutes into the documentary “Homecoming,” new on Netflix on Wednesday, Beyoncé stands at the peak of a pyramid, wind rushing through her hair, and sings a freedom song to her people. The 37-year-old icon’s voice whisks over the melody of “Lift Every Voice And Sing,” the African American national anthem, like a flag…
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The Schmooze A French-Jewish Billionaire Family Is Leading Fundraising To Rebuild Notre Dame
Editor’s note, April 17, 11:30 [An earlier edition of this article stated that LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault is Jewish. The Arnault family is not Jewish.] Correction appended: Swish your L’Oreal-scented hair and careful not to spill on the Louis Vuitton — you just might have contributed to the fundraising to rebuild Notre Dame cathedral, the…
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The Schmooze We Ranked Democratic Candidates By How Much They Give To Charity
To paraphrase John Lennon — tax season is over, if you want it. Tax season is over, Hallelujah. And as a benefit of the heady collision of tax time and a pre-presidential election year, major 2020 candidates have continued to release their tax returns, under growing pressure from critics and constituents. Over the past days…
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The Schmooze Next Up For Spike Lee: A Biopic About KKK-Heir Turned Civil Rights Activist
It was in October of 1961, in McComb, Mississippi, when members of a racist mob descended on 22-year-old Bob Zellner and tried to pull out his eyeballs. Zellner is not a Jew, despite what his name might suggest. And though his activism in the American civil rights movement was legendary, Zellner is a white Alabaman…
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The Schmooze ‘When Harry Met Sally’ Is Turning 30 — 16 Facts About The Making Of The Movie
This July, the world’s favorite romantic comedy will turn 30. “When Harry Met Sally” director Rob Reiner and stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan gathered this weekend to reminisce about the orgasmically-enjoyable NYC-set love story, as old friends. Tragically Nora Ephron, the legendary Jewish screenwriter, essayist, and journalist behind the film died in 2012 at…
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The Schmooze ‘Broad City’ And ‘Crazy Ex-GF’ Taught Jewish Women To Embrace Sex, Drugs, And Imperfection
How should a Jewish woman be? She should be like Ruth and like Esther — brave, beautiful, practicing and selfless. She should be modest. She should be a princess. She should be an over-achiever. She should be a wife and a mother. She should have a big butt and give good blow jobs. She should…
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The Schmooze The Worst Possible Answer: Scott Rogowsky Is Officially Leaving HQ Trivia
When the people of Israel reached the edge of the Promised Land, their leader, Moses, was not permitted to enter. He gave one last goodbye to the people, with whom he had journeyed from slavery into freedom. And then he climbed to the top of a nearby mountain, and God blessed him. And then he…
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The Schmooze Meet The Guys Who Sent Israel’s First Spacecraft To The Moon
[Yariv Bash](=https://forward.com/schmooze/419784/israel-aims-to-send-a-space-craft-to-the-moon-thursday-night/ wasn’t supposed to go to the moon. He wasn’t supposed to go anywhere. Just two years before the 39-year-old electronic engineer made history on Thursday, bringing an Israeli spacecraft to the moon, he was injured so severely in a skiing accident that he was paralyzed from the waist down. “No worries,” he told…
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