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 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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The Schmooze Here Are All Of Sunday’s Jewish Oscar Nominees
Happy Oscars-Shabbat! Hold on to your hats — here are all the Jewish people and Jew-ish movies that will be competing for Academy Awards in major categories this Sunday. BEST PICTURE “Black Panther” The nod for the cutting-edge Marvel movie is a huge moment for Black representation, and a credit to our non-Jewish friend, director…
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The Schmooze Online Store Apologizes For ‘At Least I’m Not Jewish’ T-Shirts
When you’ve got nothing but the hope in your heart and the shirt on your back, at least you’ve got this: you’re not Jewish. Wait, what? Zazzle, an online store that allows users to design and personalize objects like stationary and throw pillows, has dropped a user-designed t-shirt that read, “At least I’m not Jewish!”…
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The Schmooze Ruth Bader Ginsburg To Be Immortalized In Lego Form In ‘The Lego Movie II’
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has given the makers of “The Lego Movie II: The Second Part” permission to use her image in the upcoming film. That’s right: one of the greatest legal minds in human history contains multitudes (of Legos.) The criterion “Lego” producers Chris Miller and Phil Lord set for cameos in…
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The Schmooze Gloria Steinem Declares Allegiance To Women’s March, Shouts Out Jewish Voice For Peace
[ Feminist and Jewish icon Gloria Steinem declared her total allegiance to the national Women’s March movement on Saturday, in spite of the roiling controversies and accusations of anti-Semitism that have been leveled against some of the march’s top leadership. Steinem took the small stage in New York City’s Foley Square on Saturday morning wrapped…
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The Schmooze Leslie Jones: The New ‘Ghostbusters’ Is Insulting, ‘Like Something Trump Would Do’
When at first you don’t succeed, abandon women and go back to making movies starring only men. This, Leslie Jones claims, is the reasoning behind Jason Reitman’s upcoming “Ghostbusters” sequel — another follow-up to the classic film after the woman-focused reboot starring Jones was a box office bomb in 2016. Reitman, whose father Ivan Reitman…
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The Schmooze Ariana Grande’s ‘7 Rings’ — Satire Or A Big Misstep?
How do you solve a problem like a young female pop artist? Singer Ariana Grande is known for sex anthems, public breakups, and hair dos that conjure up a horse’s backside, so perhaps you should be forgiven for dismissing her as a person not to be taken seriously. No forgiveness will come from these quarters,…
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The Schmooze Louis CK, Remorseless: ‘I like to Jerk Off, And I Don’t Like To Be Alone’
“I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want,” world-famous comedian Louis CK wrote in the New York Times in November 2017, in a statement acknowledging that he sexually harassed five women. “I will now step back and take a long time to listen,” he wrote. Just over a year…
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