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 Is Climate Change Real? Trump Turns To Man Who Compared Holocaust To C02 Reductions To Find Out
William Happer, an official on the National Security Council, will likely head up a proposed committee to explore whether or not climate change is a national security threat, The Washington Post reports. Happer is an atomic physicist who founded the CO2 Coalition, a group he calls, “The CO2 anti-defamation league,” explaining, “There is the CO2…
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The Schmooze The Jussie Smollett Case Has Both Right And Left Calling Out Media Bias
How should the media report hate crimes and alleged hate crimes? How should media report alleged hate crimes that are now suspected hoaxes? And lastly, most dizzyingly, how should media report alleged hate crimes that are now suspected hoaxes when the hoax may, itself, be a hoax? In late January, “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, who…
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The Schmooze An Erotic Keira Knightley Movie About Post-WWII Germany? Uh Oh.
If two people are hot and white enough, can we get past the fact that one of them is a Nazi-bystander and just enjoy watching them have sex? Yes! A trailer for the movie “The Aftermath” emphatically answers. Based on the book of the same title by Rhidian Brook, “The Aftermath” follows the true story…
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The Schmooze Is God A Black Woman Or A White Man? TV Can’t Decide.
A Jew dies and goes to heaven. Standing at the pearly gates, she sees…wait — is that Maya Rudolph? Or Steve Buscemi? Or can she not see anyone at all? An uncanny theological dialogue has quietly broken out in the splashiest of places — network television — where three different shows, all by Jewish creators,…
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The Schmooze Bernie Sanders Is Running For President, And Twitter Is Exploding.
The difference between Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign and his 2020 campaign? “This time, we’re gonna win,” he told CBS on Tuesday morning, shortly after announcing his bid for candidacy. What won’t be any different? The onslaught of online takes about Sanders, particularly on Twitter. Seeking the 2016 Democratic nomination, Sanders was defeated by Hillary…
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The Schmooze Stephen Colbert Compares Trump Declaring National Emergency To A Bar Mitzvah Boy
What’s the difference between Donald Trump and a bar mitzvah boy? A bar mitzvah boy has studied, worked hard, and is finally mature enough to be treated as a man. Ba-dum tssss. On Monday night on “The Late Show,” the ever-affable Stephen Colbert gave the comic treatment to President Trump’s declaration of national emergency. Breaking…
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The Schmooze Is It Better To Be First Woman President, Or Date Seth Rogen? New Romcom Investigates.
Can women have it all? It’s a silly question, of course, nobody can really have everything. Can women have as much as men? No, a new movie by Seth Rogen answers that other, more to-the-point question. Women can either have mammoth career success, changing history and the world, or they can have a stirring sexual…
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Opinion A 16-Couple Cuban Jewish Wedding, And 5 Other Happy News Stories From This Jewish Week
It’s been an immensely painful week in the world. The one-year anniversary of the mass murder of teens in Parkland, Florida arrived. The Jewish world was roiled by the controversy surrounding Representative Ilhan Omar’s tweets. The president declared a national emergency. But there was also mammoth generosity and giving this week. There was triumphant love….
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