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 Women Are Mocking The New Seth Rogen Movie’s Portrayal Of Female Pleasure
You know how it is — when you’re with Seth Rogen, all it takes is 90 seconds to experience total bliss. via GIPHY No shade to Rogen, a sex symbol and comedy icon in anyone’s book, but sex therapists agree that between foreplay and penetrative sex women typically take 10-20 minutes to climax, and that…
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Opinion Good News! Jerusalem Is More Wheelchair-Welcoming, And Seth Rogen Is Selling Weed
It’s staying lighter later, warmer and brighter, people are being kind to one another and doing good work. Here are just a few good news stories from the Jewish world this week. If you have a tip for a Jewish news story that brought you joy, please send it to [email protected]. Jerusalem, city of gold:…
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The Schmooze Monica Lewinsky Would Have Liked Starr Report To Be Treated Like The Mueller Report
Monica Lewinsky. She’s a household name. She’s associated, in most people’s minds, with graphic sex acts and humiliation. Imagine a world in which you don’t know the name Monica Lewinsky. And now, imagine how good that would feel for Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky, whose relationship with then-President Bill Clinton as a 20-year-old White House intern led…
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Food Hey, The Weird Bagel Mangling Was Actually Invented By Jews
America today is more divided than ever in living memory. The country faces a very real threat of civil war. We’re speaking, of course, of the rising trend of slicing bagels vertically like bread. The incomprehensible treatment of bagels was brought to the attention of the greater internet this week when a Missouri-based office worker…
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The Schmooze Gwyneth Paltrow Is Having The Most Classic Jewish Mother-Daughter Fight With Apple
It’s 2019, and we just don’t need the baggage of Jewish mother stereotypes — the fake-y Bronx accent, obsession with food, the perverse need to set her children up on dates — women, parents, Jews, they’re all so much more complicated than that! But some things are eternal. And even Gwyneth Paltrow, Oscar winner, CEO,…
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Life AIPAC, After Hours: What Really Happens When 18K Israel Supporters Gather?
In the basement of Penn Social, a sports bar just off the mall in Washington, DC., one Reform, one Orthodox, and two Conservative rabbinical students are playing Dance Dance Revolution. Between the chirp-y Japanese pop music coming from the arcade game and the din of the bar, it’s hard to hear that the two dancers…
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The Schmooze Ruth Bader Gins-Beer Is Here!
Raise an icy glass to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is lending her stout reputation to a beer, “When There Are Nine,” to be released by Sam Adams this week. That’s right, you lived through the Ruth Bader Gins-bra, now you can take yours off and fill up your cup with yet another…
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The Schmooze Majority Owners Of Krispy Kreme Will Donate Millions After Discovering Nazi Past
What if: you could have unlimited donuts and soup & salad combos but your family’s name was smeared by the legacy of Naziism? Such is the situation of the Reimanns, one of Germany’s wealthiest families, who are the majority owners of major international eateries Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Panera Bread and Pret A Manger. After an…
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