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 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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Life Jewish Girl’s Social Diary: Purim Partying And Purim Protesting
To celebrate Purim, our Jewish social diarist went clubbing and protesting, back to back. She partied downtown, and protested in Midtown. She drank with Chabad and the club crowd, and marched with the beanie-wearing leftists. Here, she tells the tale of two very different Purims. The BASH. We knew we were close to “The Official…
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Opinion 7 Good News Stories About How Jews Repaired The World This Week
Just days after the horrific terror attack against Muslims during prayer at mosques in New Zealand left fifty dead, it’s not possible to call this a good week. But it’s also the week of Purim, when Jews traditionally find reasons to be happy even when happiness feels illusive. Beautiful things did happen this week, many…
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The Schmooze Amy Schumer And Her Husband Are Open About His Autism — ‘It’s Totally Positive’
Don’t look now, but Amy Schumer is treating a marginalized and misunderstood group with total respect. On Tuesday, the firebrand comic dropped her newest standup special, “Growing,” on Netflix. It contains risky material about how her husband Chris Fischer has an autism spectrum disorder. The choice to share his diagnosis was mutual, she says. And…
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The Schmooze Jewish, Asian, Trans, Deaf Actor Chella Man Will Star As DC Action Hero
Yes, Chella Man’s full identity is complicated — he even says so himself. “There is an extreme lack of representation for young, Deaf, queer, Jewish, Asian, transgender artists — sorry, that is a mouthful!” he told Teen Vogue in October 2018. “I decided to be my own representation.” And so he has. The 20-year-old actor,…
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The Schmooze Auschwitz Museum To Visitors: Stop Using Train Tracks For Instagram Photo Opps
A new niche trend has arisen: pensive photos of teens balancing on the cattle car train tracks that lead into the Auschwitz memorial. Makes you nostalgic for the innocent days of concentration camp selfies and innocent games of Swastika beer pong, doesn’t it? The Auschwitz Memorial Museum has posted a frustrating plea on social media…
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Books New Book ‘Kushner, Inc’ Makes Wild Claims — But The Wildest Thing Is Reading About Javanka At All
A new book, “Kushner, Inc” by journalist Vicky Ward, calls itself “the first explosive book about Javanka and their infamous rise to power.” The gleaming hardcover, bearing the words “Greed. Ambition. Corruption.” promises to “dig [sic] beneath the myth the couple has created.” This is a case of beautifully coiffed snake eats tail — digging…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman And Ilhan Omar Are In A Two-State Solution Lady Gang Now
Politics aside, there are exactly three people in the world who are really good at Twitter: President Donald Trump, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Weird Al Yankovic. The rest of us pretty much have to stick to the painstaking process of thinking through and then carefully fleshing out our ideas. After weeks of controversy, convolution, and…
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