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 Julian Edelman Gifts Super Bowl Tickets To A Teen Girl Bullied For Playing Football
We don’t want to get too carried away by saccharine gestures made to stoke goodwill for a hated sports team which ultimately seeks to generate as much revenue as possible, but… dang! Watching Jewish wide receiver Julian Edelman validate a tween girl who was bullied for loving football is pretty heartwarming. Ahead of the Patriots’…
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Culture A Jewish Girl’s Guide To Getting Dumped By A Doctor
I can’t explain the basic science behind electricity or eyeglasses. I’m not sure if a bull is better than a bear, I have no real understanding of the Constitution, and I don’t think I remember how to do long division. Plus, most of the time, my hair looks bad. And yet, I am dating a…
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The Schmooze Nah, Kween: Abbi & Ilana Of ‘Broad City’ Will Star In Amazon Super Bowl Ad
Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, the stars and creators of the beloved comedy “Broad City,” will feature in a Super Bowl commercial for Amazon. A commercial. During the Super Bowl. For Amazon. via GIPHY Friends, enemies, business associates, we are of many minds about this: -We are positively sweating with pleasure at the fact that…
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The Schmooze A Fake Concentration Camp Was Recreated On A Turkish Movie Premiere’s Red Carpet
Red carpet movie premieres can be so formulaic — glamorous starlets walk on a rug as lightbulbs flash — yawn. What better way to break up the uniformity of a red carpet event than with men dressed in Nazi uniforms? Not to mention a simulated concentration camp, a few German Shepherds, and a pile of…
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The Schmooze Jewish Actor Hospitalized After Anti-Gay, Racist Attack: ‘This Is MAGA Country’
Actor Jussie Smollett is in the hospital after being brutally attacked in Chicago in what police are treating as a likely hate crime. The 35-year-old star of the hit show “Empire” was reportedly approached by two people who yelled racist and homophobic slurs, then physically beat him and poured an “unknown chemical substance” onto him,…
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The Schmooze Footage Of Shirtless Bernie Sanders Drunkenly Singing With Soviets In ‘88 Surfaces
Na Zdorovye and welcome to another round of Attempted Smear of Political Candidate Via Videos Of Their Youth Only Serves To Make Candidate More Appealing. Forget dancing queen AOC or bangin’ Beto or even that unsettling video of teenage Ted Cruz plotting world domination — this grainy footage of a topless, hammered Bernie Sanders singing…
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The Schmooze Bar Refaeli Will Host Eurovision — Unless She Is Indicted First
Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli will host the 2019 Eurovision competition, unless something big comes up, you know, like a criminal indictment. The major televised event, which will be held in Tel Aviv this year to honor Israel’s win last year by singer-songwriter Netta Barzilai, will be co-hosted by Refaeli and three other Israeli talents —…
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The Schmooze ‘Magic Mike’ Aims To Be A Broadway Musical, Produced By Channing Tatum
“Magic Mike” is getting down off the pole and heading over to the great white way. The story of a man trying to leave stripping for a quiet life of carpentry and monogamy, which earned whoops and hollers at the box office in 2012, has been stripped down to a stage musical. The show will…
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