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 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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The Schmooze It’s siblings day, so we ranked the siblings from the Torah
'How good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity!'
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The Schmooze Did You Know That Nail Polish Titan OPI Is The Brainchild Of A Jewish Mom?
If you’ve ever held a pleasantly rotund little bottle of OPI nail lacquer in your hand and felt your mood lift, you can thank Suzi Weiss-Fischmann. Weiss-Fischmann is the 62-year-old Jewish woman who created the massively successful nail art brand. She’s a Hungarian immigrant, a Jewish mother, the child of Holocaust survivors, and a super…
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The Schmooze Why Audrey Hepburn refused to play her ‘soul sister,’ Anne Frank
The two were born in the same year, and lived only miles apart.
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman Hypes Nathan Englander With Titillating Picture Of His Book
On reality star Khloe Kardashian’s Instagram page, she hawks for Flat Tummy Co. shakes, a laxative-based meal replacement product. On his page, DJ Khaled posts paid ads for sparkling wine. And on Jewish actress Natalie Portman’s Instagram, she peers out coquettishly behind a new piece of fiction by a man who once began a New…
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The Schmooze She Made It Through The Wilderness! Madonna To Perform At Eurovision In Israel
Madonna and her 160-person entourage will descend on Eurovision in Israel this summer, with the pop icon slated to perform a new song during the broadcast, Haaretz reports. The European Broadcasting Union told the Israeli paper that the performer will debut a new song, as well as a classic, at the 64th annual competition, which…
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The Schmooze QUIZ: How Well Do You REALLY Know ‘Fiddler On The Roof’?
Next to bagels and Jerry Seinfeld, the musical “Fiddler on the Roof” is, for better or for worse, one of the great pillars of American Judaism. But do you really know much about it? Sure, you can daidle deedle daidle as well as the next guy, but do you really know the show? Take this…
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The Schmooze Palestinian Rapper’s Viral Video On Eve Of Israeli Elections: Don’t Boycott, Vote Fascism Out
Palestinians should boycott the vote in the Israeli elections. “They’re using us to look liberal,” spits Palestinian rapper Tamer Nafar. Palestinians who can vote must participate in the upcoming Israeli elections, he said. “If our vote will erase Lieberman, imprison Bibi, then we’re ready,” snaps the same Palestinian rapper, Tamer Nafar. Palestinians who are eligible…
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