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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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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The Schmooze ‘Broad City’ Girls Going Bra Shopping With Mom Captures A Quintessential Jewish American Experience
“Look what I brought you — fresh, virgin, breast meat!” It is a right of passage in a young Jewish woman’s life to be dragged by her mother or other female authority to a dingy room, to be measured by a woman who grew up in a time with different standards for personal boundaries for…
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The Schmooze 24 Top Power Couples: Jewish Edition
They have power. They have charm. They have longterm commitment. And some of them are annoying. With the understanding that we are merely scratching the surface, here they are, in no particular order: the power couples of Judaism. The A-Listers: Diane von Fürstenberg and Barry Diller Status: Married (2001) Him: A business brainiac who has…
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The Schmooze ‘Frozen II’ Is Finally Happening — Here’s The First Look At The ‘Epic’ Sequel
Born of cold and winter air And mountain rain combining This icy force both foul and fair Has a frozen heart worth mining! So cut through the red tape, negotiate well Get Idina Menzel and Kristin Bell There’s piles of cash in tickets to sell Split the frames apart! Give ‘Frozen II’ a start. Yes,…
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The Schmooze CBS Fired Les Moonves, Citing Sexual Misconduct. Now He’s Back In Business.
Les Moonves presided over CBS for decades, breathing into existence shows like “Friends,” “Survivor,” and “The Big Bang Theory.” Under his leadership, CBS was the most-watched network in America for 10 years. In September 2018, Moonves resigned from CBS, following over a dozen accusations of sexual misconduct, which a later independent investigation found credible. Now,…
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The Schmooze Mass Die-In To Protest The OxyContin Sackler Family By Nan Goldin At The Guggenheim
If you were at the Guggenheim Museum on Saturday you could have caught a free new exhibit, created by Jewish artist Nan Goldin and her group “PAIN” (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now.) Around 6:30pm, flurries of fake scripts fell from the ceiling of the iconic building, proscribing Solomon R. Guggenheim 80 mg of OcyContin, to be…
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The Schmooze The ‘Wicked’ Musical Movie Adaptation Is Finally Happening
Something has changed within me. What is this feeling, so sudden and new? The smash Broadway musical “Wicked” is finally, finally going to be a big-budget Hollywood movie, produced by Universal pictures for December 2021. Thank goodness! When “Wicked,” the untold story of the Wicked Witch of the West (and all that happened before “Dorothy…
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The Schmooze Going To Synagogue Makes You Happier, Pew Study Finds
A Pew study has good news for Jews in pews and dues-paying Hebrews — going to synagogue, or regularly engaging with any religious community, really does make you happier. New analysis from the Pew Research Center found that “regular participation in a religious community” was linked to greater happiness for people in the US and…
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