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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Opinion Good News For The Jews: 5 Miraculous, Uplifting Moments This Jewish Week
Life isn’t all bad, so why should news be? Once a week, just before Shabbat, the Forward will highlight stories about Jewish joy, triumph, and pride from Jewish communities in America, Israel and all over the world. If you have a tip for a Jewish news story that brought you joy, please send it to…
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The Schmooze Bryan Singer Will Direct Movie About Rape Survivor – Despite Accusations Of Rape
Bryan Singer has been breaking records lately: in the past months “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the Queen biopic he directed and produced, broke box office records. And in the past week, Singer broke a personal record, adding to his list of rape and child sexual assault accusations four additional accusations. In a major investigative report from the…
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The Schmooze There’s Either Going To Be A ‘Big Lebowski’ Sequel Or A Really Annoying Superbowl Ad
“The Big Lebowski,” aka “Fiddler on the Roof” for dads, hit theaters in 1998. The world has not seen its equal since — a stoner mistaken-identity caper that gives equal screen time to crime and bowling, and which gave us the most immortal and profane quote in Jewish cinema. And we’re not likely to. On…
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The Schmooze ‘Broad City’ Final Season Starts Tonight. The Trailer Will Make You Cry.
Our girls are glowing up. Abbi and Ilana, the stars of “Broad City” and televised manifestations of so many Jewish millennials souls, will enter the final season of their hit show on Thursday night, and it looks like their last adventures will be their greatest. We got breast meat, we got toddlers, we got pasta…
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The Schmooze Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Cites The Torah In Her Latest Twitter Retort
“Pray as if everything depends on God, but act as if everything depends on you.” – Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel “The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.” – Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez New York State representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a reputation for writing the best comebacks since Abraham said,…
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The Schmooze ‘X-Men’ Director Bryan Singer Faces Rape, Child Molestation Allegations Spanning Decades
Bryan Singer, the director and producer behind many of the “X-Men” movies and the newly Oscar-nominated “Bohemian Rhapsody,” has been accused of sexual misconduct toward minors and accused of rape three times. Singer has denied each accusation and has never been charged with a crime. In a piece published in the Atlantic this week as…
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The Schmooze 10 Jews Whose Style Fiercely Challenges Traditional Masculinity
Socrates, allegedly, always wore the same threadbare himation, consistent with his pursuit of virtue over material items. Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan advocated for sartorial peacocking — he believed a person’s selfhood would always be defined by how the person is perceived, so a brilliant presentation was key. And Shahidha Bari writes that French philosopher Hélène Cixous…
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The Schmooze Chelsea Clinton And Marc Mezvinsky Are Expecting Their Third Child
The Clintons have an announcement — no, not that one. Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton announced on Twitter on Tuesday that she and husband Marc Mezvinsky are expecting baby number three, due in late summer. “We cannot wait to meet our new addition,” Clinton, 38, tweeted. The couple, who wed in a climactic interfaith wedding…
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